'To Try Men's Souls'

" 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 a cut co author. To try men's souls. Why that title."

" Well first thought -- opening one most famous pamphlets in American history of the crisis by Thomas -- had -- 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 between Manhattan and was beaten and 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 are the times that trying to console. And he was trying to explain to the troops why they were still in the field. We'll 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 curry -- 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 -- the American people would say. You know what we do what it will help -- we operate and Washington is the model of persistent. Courageous dedication to liberty. He leaves. Mount Vernon 1775. In an eight years he's going 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 revolutionary war. Is there weight -- quantify describe how much is fiction and how much is this taken from history it's now actually 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 and which one Brothers with the British the other Brothers with the Americans they're deeply divided that was real that happened we describe. The crossing the river where it is very real we described doctor Russia's role in in Philadelphia. We know though a lot of things where 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 march. Without boots of one point -- 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 -- opinions so. It's it's a very very exciting book. After act in researching -- and then write it did you get a greater respect to learn more about Washington. Yeah I think you know Washington is like Lincoln he's one of those -- people where. The more you study them 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 us -- by his personal example. When they capture the Germans and were very mad at the Germans because they had man and a number of Americans of the battle -- insist that they be treated with dignity. Many of them ultimately you've deserted become Americans. He establishes an -- tone for the American republic that makes it very different from European professional armies. The very fact that he understood that the -- and the sword have to go together in a democracy. That you have to understand why you're fighting in order 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 two highly every family visits Washington to go down to Mount -- she is educations and begin to realize. All of -- and George Washington shoulders and he and Martha -- the centerpiece from which American group and I think without them we'd be a very different country."

" Revenue look at it trying to -- solos and that I just to see you whether it's a movie or book our lab. Chris and I are just checking out -- exactly why did that they got -- nice to see you thanks everybody."