Remembered for killing treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Recounting his political rise and downfall. This was recorded at the gallery of art in washington, d. C. In 201 2012. Thank you for having me back. Im delighted to speak here. I always like to speak in washington, where the audiences are well informed and engaged, but having just finished teaching a semester and for the year at the university of texas, im always delighted to speak to an audience of people who dont have to be here. There will be no test. I say this sincerely. Im very flattered that you took the time and took your evening to come listen to me. And i try to i think that my student, by and large, are interested in the subject but i know perfectly well that if they didnt have tests, if they didnt have papers, that they werent held accountable, then most of the seats would be empty. So none of you have to be here, but you did come. I find that to be very flattering. I could, i suppose, give you a test at
Flattered that you took the time, took your evening to come listen to me. I try to i think that my students by and large are interested in the subject but i know perfectly well that if they didnt have tests, didnt have papers, if they werent held accountable then most of the seats would be empty. None of you had to be here but you did. Come. I find that to be very flattering. I could, i suppose, give you a test at the end. The title of my talk, which i had forgotten until jamie just mentioned it is the unknown aaron burr. I am going to tell you about aaron burr and tell you why i wrote about a back about aaron burr. The title is the heartbreak of aaron burr. I will tell you about the heart break but i cant tell you the whole story without giving away the ending. I dont want to give away the ending because i will tell you why. It is not just that i want you to buy the book and read the book and enjoy it and hang around until the ends. But it has to do with the reason i wrote the book in
Broadway and thinking this might do well in part because the American People have a certain longing for the founding generation a longing for the understanding of it. The understand that generation had a few things figured out. Was not a utopian generation by any means but they were people who are set in motion a government that would last through the ages and fostered the development of the greatest civilization in the world. A lot of the story from the founding era has been lost by attrition in some places perhaps benign neglect and others and maybe deliberately in some cases and so i wanted to reconnect the American People with some of our forgotten founders. Host i want to ask you about that but first hamilton come to gc it . Guest i havent. I have listened to the soundtrack and ive been waiting for the price of the tickets to go down a little bit. Host its really worth seeing because the keyword and what you are saying was the people and what hamilton makes clear is what i seen yo
A lot of cloud cover. If it is not the raining. So it is just, not the prettiest pattern. We get it. The were stuck with it. We will have to deal. That is where i come in and meisha comes into give you a sense what you will run into this morning. Lets see what we are facing at the moment here on storm can three. Just as i said that i felt one rain drop hit me on the nose. We are looking at storms, we have got wet weather coming in the form of the stray showers, it is primarily confined to north of philadelphia across all of those suburbs and off to the western Chester County for example. Looking at the localized zoom on this and putting things in motion. You can see these showers from the southwest to northeast here. They are generally speaking off to just certainly a dreary start, in delaware and southern new jersey but many are dry at the moment. New there is a Coastal Flood Advisory that will take effect speaking of delaware and new jersey for all of those counties in that sort of n
Lower down payment, the higher mortgage whatever it was was all a way to increase the profit potential. Thats the system the way the privatepublic system was devised. Thank you. After words with this weeks guest host historian and journalist Richard Brookhiser Senior Editor with national review. This week Gautam Mukunda in his first book, the indispensible when leaders really matter. Ian at the Harvard Business professor profiles leaders to determine when leaders matter the most. He also discusses the lessons that can be learned from those whove made the greatest impact on the issues of their day. Host this was a delightful book to read. You deal with some very familiar figures but found new things to say about them. You attack them with some new angles. So lets dive in. You have one of your epigraphs is a quote that gets attributed to different people, i gather Charles Degaulle is most often credited. The graveyards are full of indispensable pass. What does that mean . Guest appropria