information you want. Truth you demand. This is the Brian kill me, Joe.

Hey, welcome back everyone. Let's take a break from what's breaking in the news and talk about

something that helps make our country what it is today. John Krib knows all about it. He's maybe

the nation's foremost Lincoln experts got a brand new book out called the rail splitter.

You know, the hillside, the one out old aid that Mike Pence called the best Lincoln book he ever read.

So John Krib at a time in which we need a great leader from an unlikely

situate from an unlikely source. That is really what Lincoln was. If anyone looked at someone

unlikely to become president, it had to be Lincoln when he started and then of course his rise.

John, welcome back. Thank you for having me, Brian. I appreciate it. Before I forget congratulations

on the one year anniversary of one nation. It's a fantastic show. Oh, thanks so much.

John Krib appreciate the Saturday nights at eight Eastern time. So, so John, you do old

Abe. The rail splitter was what they used to sell Lincoln when he ran for office

because he really did. That's who he was. He used to want to run away from that image,

but then they said embrace it. America will embrace it. Why'd you write this one?

I wrote it partly because something my grandfather said to me many years ago when I was

much younger, he said, John, you know, if you really want to know the man, you got to know the boy.

In other words, you got to know where somebody was from, how they grew up, what kind of shape

them as they were growing up. And so that's what the rail splitter is the story they were

handling and before he was president. And in a lot of ways, it's the most fascinating part of

his life. And so it starts him off as a teenager on the Indiana Frontier in 1826 and they're just

at his side as he makes his way from the woods of Indiana to the prairies of Illinois and finally

to the threshold of the White House. It is a fascinating story. It's an important story.

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