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RUSH: My friends, a big day personally, very thrilled we are to announce book four of the Adventures of Rush Revere series<\/a> available in the stores today. Pre-orders went out about a month ago. This is the fourth book. Please indulge me for a moment as I recap how this entire series came to be. <\/p>\n

Some years ago my great friend and the esteemed thriller author, Vince Flynn<\/a>, kept telling me that I needed to write a book, another book, that basically was a compilation of some of the best monologues in the history of this program. I said, “Vince, we\u2019re talking about an encyclopedia then. We\u2019re not talking about a book. We\u2019re talking about a 20-volume set. I don\u2019t know that I have that in me.” But he kept talking and he kept pushing and he kept demanding. <\/p>\n

<\/a>I loved the idea, and I loved Vince\u2019s passion, but I just never acted on it. For some reason, I don\u2019t know whether it was instinct or what have you, but I just never pulled the trigger in my own mind to do it. But during one of these sessions where Vince was leaning on me to do a book, I mean, he wanted it timed for an election, thought it could be a turning point kind of book during an election. My wife, Kathryn, said, “You know what you need to do? You need to connect with younger generations. Younger generations are not listening to the radio and they\u2019re not watching TV much anymore.” <\/p>\n

And she said, “They\u2019re not being taught the American history that you and I have been taught. Why don\u2019t you do some children\u2019s books? Why don\u2019t you write a children\u2019s book? Tell the story of the American founding. These stories are being lost.” She pointed out that the public education system and beyond, I mean, even you get into college, junior college, major universities, the whole concept of the American founding has been changed, and now it\u2019s one that basically teaches America is guilty and immoral. Now that excited me. Something I had never even thought of doing, writing children\u2019s books, aged eight to 11, 10 to 12, somewhere in that range. <\/p>\n

But it resonated with me because it\u2019s so important, because I love the country. I wish everybody did. The truth of the founding of this country is one of the most miraculous events in human history, and people deserve to know what it is and deserve to be proud of their country and they deserve to understand why. So after a lot of long conversations and tireless hours, the Adventures of Rush Revere series<\/a> was born with the mission to revive the American spirit and tell the amazing stories of our founding in a unique, unabashedly patriotic and accurate way. And our goal from the beginning was for young readers to experience history, not just have it shoved at them, but actually take them to it, make them a part of it. <\/p>\n

Instead of just memorizing names and facts for a test, we wanted young readers to really understand how one event led to the next and how the country that we know and love today was born, what it took for it to happen. The obstacles that people had to overcome, the adversity that people faced, the genuine sacrifice that the Founders and early citizens of this country engaged in to make it real, to make it happen so that we all benefit from the great country that we know and love today. <\/p>\n

And our hope was that for parents, grandparents, it would be seen as an opportunity to share the reading experience with their grandkids and kids, to make it a family event, to share the stories of American history. The assumption was that the parents and grandparents would know what\u2019s in the books, be able to explain it in even greater detail, share their personal experiences as they were growing up with their kids and grandkids and make it an entirely family-based learning exercise that happened to be fun and invigorating. Because these stories, our history, is genuinely unique and extraordinarily American. <\/p>\n

So we created Rush Revere. Rush Revere is a substitute teacher at a middle school. And he dresses up like an old colonial citizen. He has a time-traveling horse named Liberty. And Revere and Liberty take the reader back in time to witness events like Paul Revere\u2019s ride, the Boston Tea Party. They\u2019re there. We take the readers right there. They meet the people; they are at these events as they happen. The students talk and get to know exceptional patriots like George Washington. <\/p>\n

They learn through conversation what George Washington was thinking as he prepared to battle the British. And we\u2019ve had so much support, so much praise for this series. We are extremely grateful for all of it. I can\u2019t tell you how gratifying it is to read literally thousands of letters and photos that people have sent us. Children, parents, teachers — teachers! — telling us how much they\u2019re enjoying American history. Parents, you\u2019ve heard them call here talking about their kids didn\u2019t even like reading, much less history, \u2019til they got hold of these books and they started enjoying the act of reading.<\/p>\n

And they wanted to read more, and they\u2019re sending us pictures as they open the books on Christmas morning or as they get them and read them or as they dress up as characters in the book. And the e-mails and the response we\u2019re getting are just overwhelming. We share a lot of that at a website we\u2019ve set up, RushRevere.com<\/a>, where all of this can be seen and where you can participate. Send in your own comments and videos and photos and what have you. Now, today the fourth book in the series is on the shelves. <\/p>\n

<\/a>Rush Revere and the Star-Spangled Banner<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Let me ask you a question. Tonight, the World Series starts. The Gotham Mets invade Kansas City for the first game of the World Series. And tonight the World Series will feature the nationally televised performance of the National Anthem. Most baseball games don\u2019t; they run commercials during the National Anthem but during the World Series and Super Bowl special events the anthem is part of the telecast. Did you ever ask yourself…? You and I, we know the story of the Star-Spangled Banner. We pretty much know what the lyrics mean.<\/p>\n

But what about young people today? What about young people eight, nine, 10, 12, 15 even? By the way, we\u2019ve even had adults tell us they\u2019re learning things in these books that they weren\u2019t taught. That\u2019s something we didn\u2019t expect, but it\u2019s a bonus. Everybody knows the words, everybody can sing along. But I wonder how many young people today can. Given the state of American history, I wonder how many people know the story behind the Star-Spangled Banner, our National Anthem.<\/p>\n

I wonder how many young people know what the words mean, why they were written, when, what is the inspiration. Why is it our National Anthem? How did it all happen? Well, that\u2019s one of the things tackled and explained in this book. The readers are taken right back to the very moment it happened. They meet and talk about it with Francis Scott Key, who is the author. We\u2019ve dedicated this book to Kit Carson<\/a>, the former irreplaceable chief of staff and trusted right hand. He lost his battle to cancer earlier this year, after we all thought he had it beat and was in remission. <\/p>\n

And it was… Ah, it was a very sobering event, as many of you regular listeners know. The book is dedicated to Kit and other irreplaceable friends and family who\u2019ve also faced terrible illnesses over these past years. Every one of them that we know — and I\u2019m sure it\u2019s the same case with you — people have battled heroically with smiles and good cheer, while they are in the throes of this disease. It\u2019s always amazed me. It\u2019s always amazed me the human spirit and how it dominates even ravages of terminal diseases. And you get inspired being around people like this. <\/p>\n

You\u2019re nervous sometimes to go to the hospital. It\u2019s unsettling. You don\u2019t know how to act. But in our case, Kit took care of all that by dominating every time we visited and did what he had to do to take the attention off of himself and just have a general conversation. The hospital just happened to be where he was that day. And it was truly inspiring and sad at the same time. The sadness just multiplied the inspiration that we all felt. And Kit is just one of many in similar circumstances all over this country who themselves are the definition of courage. God bless all of you in that circumstance, situation, and all the best to all of you from us. That\u2019s why we\u2019ve dedicated the fourth book to Kit Carson. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, in Rush Revere and the Star-Spangled Banner<\/a>, remember: Liberty, the talking horse, was struck by a bolt of lightning when he was just a young colt, and for some reason magic happened. He\u2019s able to time travel back anywhere in American history. Revere is his buddy, and they\u2019re able to travel back wherever Revere thinks it would be useful. It\u2019s a great vehicle: a talking horse, time traveling. <\/p>\n

We can take these students back anywhere in history and they can take their iPhones and they can take video and they can bring all their experiences back and share them with the other students in their class — those that are permitted to know that all this happens. It\u2019s a big secret that the horse talks. It\u2019s a big secret that they time travel. It\u2019s a big part of the whole experience in making sure the time travel does not affect what actually happened in American history. It\u2019s really a challenging and fun way to present all of this. <\/p>\n