'To Try Men's Souls'

" in now with former speaker of the house Newt Gingrich about his new book to try men's souls. I Youkilis have been busy making movies and I got another novel with with the co author. To try men's souls. Why that title."

" Well first thought the opening one most famous pamphlets in American history the crisis by Thomas -- Payne had written common sense a year earlier which explained the American declaration dependence and move very widely read. And then things got really bad the army was beaten in Brooklyn and was beaten in Manhattan and was beaten in White Plains and was driven out of the palisades. But between September and December. The army shrank from 32500. Less than one out of every thousand Americans was available to general Washington. And Washington big pain who has a rifleman who joined the army to quit being a right to go back to writing any road. Piece called the crisis which begins. These -- the times that crime and so. And who's trying to explain to the troops why they were still in the field. Washington across the Delaware on Christmas night. 1776. In the ice in a snowstorm. 13 of his army did not have boots they were wearing. Burlap bags they left a trail of blood marching to trim. The courage and endurance that commitment of these people. He's unbelievable and it was a time to try and souls of part of the reason that both fortunate wrote this book is we thought we would get two point -- high unemployment. With problems in Iraq Iran Afghanistan Pakistan North Korea. When the American with a radical regime in the White House we the American people would say. You know what we do what will help shall we operate and Washington is the model. Persistent. Courageous dedication to liberty. He leaves. Mount Vernon 1775. In an eighty years she's only back home for one week. He stays in the field as a general. We are free today and I think we are a republic today. Because of George Washington and we wanted to share with people very dynamic novel. What it's like. And and and how close we came as a country. Two losing the revolutionary war. Is there -- are quantify describe how much is fiction and how much is this taken from history and it's -- we believe virtually everything in the book is accurate although. Obviously there are private conversations and families of the -- exact words remain at. But we describe the family in which one Brothers with the British the other brother is that the Americans they're deeply divided that was real that happened we describe. The crossing the river where it is very real we describe doctor Russia's role men Philadelphia. We know though a lot of -- we put together. The facts that surround the individual conversation all accurate. And how it occurred. And Nobel fortune my co -- lived near Washington's crossing in New Jersey he actually was a re an actor he actually marched. Without boots one -- she fell on the Delaware River. -- storm. And the -- describes how frightening and how painful it is to be in the river that was his life when he was due opinions so. It's it's a very very exciting book. After act in researching it and and -- it did you get a greater respect and learn more about Washington. Yeah I think -- Washington's like Lincoln he's one of those where people where. The more you study him the more impressive he has. His persistence the fact that he's his own intelligence chief. He's his own logistics chief -- his chief political officer he's holding the other disarming by his personal example. When they captured the Germans and were very mad at the Germans because they had -- and a number of Americans of the -- Washington insist that they be treated with dignity. Many of them ultimately have deserted become Americans. He establishes a tone for the American republic that makes it very different from European professional armies. The very fact that he understood that the ten and the sword have to go together in a democracy. That you have to understand why you're fighting in -- to be able to lead free people. And I think toward the more I studied washed over the years of Mount Vernon now has as you know could you were down there. Here this magnificent education senator. And I can't recommend to highly every family visits Washington to go down to Mount -- she is educations and begin to realize. All of us stand and George Washington shoulders and he and Martha are the centerpiece from which American -- and I think without them we'd be a very different country."

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