Dr. Larry Schweikart

I will give people a free update if they just email me at larry at wildworldofhistory.com.

That's larry at wildworldofhistory.com.

We have two new chapters that go from 2018 to 2025.

through Trump's first full term, through Biden's term, through COVID, and part of the way through Trump's term.

So if you want that free update, it's a PDF.

I'll email it to you if you email me at larry at wildworldofhistory.com.

ken burns's uh the american revolution uh that's been on i don't know if you've been watching it but but let's go back to thanksgiving because you got did you did you watch burns's american rev american revolution no no i did not sorry i've been i've had uh not only the book you see in the background america in the 21st century which is coming out in february but uh the publisher and i decided we needed a book for america's 250th anniversary specifically

Although I wasn't going to write any more books.

I go, okay, I'll do one more.

And it's called American Biography.

I know this is going to be right up your alley, Steve, because I follow the history of America, starting with John Smith all the way up to Trump.

by linking people together, one to another to another, all the way through the history.

It's quite an amazing story, you know, that William Bradford, his ship was sent off on a prayer service by Increase Mather, who was Cotton Mather's father.

And Bradford, of course, liked Cotton Mather a lot.

And you just get into these connections whereby, did you know that Davy Crockett had on him one book at the Alamo?

He brought with him one book, and it was Benjamin Franklin's autobiography.

I mean, you find these links through American history.

We really are all tied together by less than six degrees of separation, quite honestly.

Yeah, exactly right.

I mean, we forget that so many of these people were contemporaries, but they weren't the same age.