Well, hello ladies and gentlemen. This is the Victor Davis Hanson show, the

classicist we are recording on Sunday, October 17th of the year of our Lord 2021.

I am the host. There's a host and there's a star of the show.

The host Jack Fowler. I'm the director of the Center for Civil Society at

AmericanFilmthropic.com and also the author of its weekly newsletter.

Civil thoughts more than that later.

But the star is Victor Davis Hanson. He is the Martin and Eli Anderson senior

fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Wayne and Marsha Busky Distinguished

Fellow in history at Hillsdale College and New York Times best selling author

for the dying citizen. We've got a lot to talk about today.

We're going to start off talking about the book, some of the monkey business

that goes on in the publishing industry, but how it has rightly landed on the

best seller list. And we'll do that right after this important message.

We're back with the Victor Davis Hanson show, the classicist. This is one of

the three weekly podcasts that occur under the Hanson show umbrella, the

traditionalist and the cultural list with the great Sammy Winkler also coming

to you weekly. So Victor, hello, my friend was good to see you a couple weeks

back in New York where you were doing extensive promotion for the dying

citizen. Now out number seven on the New York Times best seller list,

Victor, let me make a lament on your behalf or just my own lament.

This book, when it was actually published, I'm sure there was significant

presales through Amazon. So it should have come as no surprise that this

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