That is a native you cannot make that but talk about that. Folger b cavemen aware of the superb copy complete with all of the original leaves and then with the 17th century cover. And we knew that up providence and had owned that from the getgo so the only presentation and copy that we know of. What is the presentation in copy referred to . And gives it to a specific person one is to Augustine Vincent in to have that presentation copy with the printer id it it would go that was mandated. But folger becomes aware that it is published by then in english shakespeare scholar but for four years it changes how much does he want per copy . And folger says could die by bad over time . That is a lot of money bided time he made up his mind then that english man who owns the copies that i change my mind. I would rather look at the book but a few bright to be one senior ask me if i change my mind. Said the past by ready to sell the book. In then to say somebody else is offered me money. And then to get back to folger that was a record price for a book at the time. And then to get the money together all the once and to pay for that over time. When you follow the story of the book and. The idealist to have to go on the same rights that henry did. Is suspenseful. They would get the copies. We have so much to attack about but with the initial reaction this is the star player right to keel up the first folio is there any backlash. It happens twice a copy that is owned by the bosnian library as they acquire the subsequent folio they decided to sell the first folio at cost and then years later a collector says kate e. Verify this is the first folio . That it is attached to the shelf and that they could not stela. But this short version of the story is you wanted to buy a copy backed that the price of 2,000 pounds and folger said where . But meanwhile they were trying to raise money and articles appeared in the newspaper. To say what anybody pony up the money . Is even some cambridge men. Headed say billionaire. In some detail like moneybags with bags of cash with those treasures. And that there was a great deal of backlash and the second time that happens following the acquisition and then appeared with uncle sam in the khartoum. And looking over to celebrate to bring those back to america as well. And those americans with a lot of cash by those treasures to liberate the books. I cannot believe the time has gone so quickly and to turn the tables to your mother and father but they enlisted in his majestys navy to defend shakespeares england i know you have an economics degree i thank you were a protegee of how you came to write the book. My father is english and joined the navy age 17 he and his brother that is where the dedication comes from jeffrey to Stratford Upon Avon and it was probably the colonel and his mentor that taught shakespeare was the quintessential story teller and to move teach us how to tell a good tale. And as i mentioned in my remarks they call that a page turner and there really is. As a former attorney i am working on a law review and you are as meticulous about footnotes, it is just a page turning book. Now one thing i would like to talk about david think of the Folger Library of course, and you mentioned that a little bit but to the end of his life he knew he wanted to have a whole is how they can about so tell us about that. Henry and his wife were friends at the university of pennsylvania. And to ask for example, you have the copy i can look at . Dozens of librarians to say sorry it is packed away. And then it came to him that he should build the library. One question and did he have a catalog . The answer is no. Emily wood catalog all the books in the index cards what they bought it in the price but he did not catalog everything that he did not keep up with that he would buy watercolor paintings by the crates but that was not all catalog in fact, there are so many individual items surveyed considered building of a library book that relatively modest endowment growing up in washington d. C. And then to stop buying in the property on capitol hill. How much would that cost . So they bought the property here. It took a total of nine years of those 14 townhomes on east capitol street by the time he finished acquiring the up properties congress had made its decision to expand the library of congress across the street with the Eminent Domain to take the property that they had just acquired. And the president of standard oil. And then a the librarian of congress that helped him to deal with congress to carve out the parcel that he referred to from the acquisition. Than they have a wonderful gift shop. Live 40 or 50 people. There was a great time doing that so you describe yourself as obsessive and henry folger of course. And how many of those first folios are accounted for . There were 82 copies at the Folger Library in the next largest has five after the first which has twelves would is not common to have a dozen or more copies. And that would be delightful. Maybe you can do some detective work. Maybe i will. There are a few plays that we wrote about. And then they were discovered no manuscript we do not have a single manuscript but copies of the first folio have gone between five and six 1 2 Million Dollars sold many librarians check their inventories and then recently discovered a copy and then verify that is number 240. I wish you luck in your quest. Thank you mx senator dick durbin. My mother discover the library and took me there the rule was like italy checkout as many books as i could carry and i would race through them to me it was a real live venture and it would wet my appetite. Then i got into the doctor do little serious back in my youth nobody was reading. But most discovered what it was about a big was the british set of books and for some reason i got a kick of the talking animals of a the hardy boys that is part of who we were. My mom was an immigrant but she was selftaught everything under the sun. Reading, art and a fake that inspired me. How did you end up in east st. Louis . By the age of two coming from germany from ellis island and new york they have to destinations chicago and st. Louis in to be part of the largest immigration and she took the route with my grandfather as a thriving part of east st. Louis. And so she caveman dropped out of school with the switchboard operator and worked her whole life and was my original teacher. Today i normally go towards nonfiction. About every third or fourth book. I think that is good for me. If you think a politician is reading history or biography that i have to get into it if you see course is on line it does not charge anything you can take a College Course so what did i take . Rating. But i never had a poetry course modern contemporary poetry a professor from the university of pennsylvania he was really good so i could monitor his classs it was a great experience and the bewildered all of these different poets ive made the mistake to tell one of the people on the Editorial Board and i did this to put it in the paper the next thing i know i am on all Things Considered and about taking up poetry course but they surprised me that they were live on the air and so they said they asked you questions but i always try to use my reading to expand a little bit and to push myself of little bit. Last year during the quiz we asked the senators. What was it . But for me i just heard about it. That there was a blind girl surviving the bombing raids in france at the remember if i recommended it to her or she to me. What is another book you have recommended . The novel that i have read very well written written, though life of popeye to have this exchange back and forth. I read in the heart of the seat it is a story of the whaling ship that was sunk by a whale in the pacific to inspired terminals will with the story behind the story and then there was billion division which is the second book that will be my next one but recently that i thought were good was timothy can to have the immortal irish man who was banished and then escaped to the United States from the South Pacific that became a leader of the union troops of the battalion in the civil war then went off to montana where he died i will not give you more but that is the premise and tells his story and when i read about the dust bowl that led to the migration in the 30s with the grapes of wrath writing a book about the times of the dust bowl it was a an incredible scene to be engulfed in dirt and dust and became a challenge in the citys lease date or quit a and leave . So that a moral irishman is a book teeseven to ever read books by your colleagues . Sure
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