His academic career teaching at Mount Holyoke college where he was dean of the faculty at one point and dow prof. And taught at williams and west point and university of massachusetts and and his. On the side when he hadnt been teaching he had been riding bestselling books. Among them biographies of john adams, george washington, thomas jefferson, the National Book award, the book on the revolutionary brothers, founding brothers, revolutionary generation won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001. Most recently he has written a book, at the quartet, that has been on the New York Times bestseller list for ten weeks. It is what he calls the second American Revolution, the revolution that began in 1787, not 1776. Lets go into that. Thank you for coming, joseph ellis. Why did you decide to focus your academic career on the revolutionary war period . What was it about this area that was interesting to you . I do seem obsessed, dont i . They asked Willie Sutton back in the 50s, why do you rob banks . Wi
[inaudible conversations] booktv on instagram, follows for publishing news, and behindthescenes pictures and videos, instagram. Com booktv. Next on booktvs thanksgiving Holiday Weekend complete coverage of the fifteenth annual National Book festival held this past september. First Cokie Roberts talks about her book on women in washington d. C. During the civil war era called capital dames the civil war and the women of washington. [applause] thank you. Thank you all for being here this labor day weekend. This book festival is one of the greatest things that happens year in and year out. Hundreds of thousands of people showing up. To celebrate books and to buy them. What a concept, children and families, usually my grandchildren are with me but i am going to catch the plane and go see them in a minute. It is a wonderful event, i write the history books, often many of the characters in my history books are political wives and it was a political wife who started this book festival, laura
Montgomery but they have to leave montgomery in 1957 and she will spend the second half of her life as an activist in detroit fighting the racism of the jim crow no. She will continue to do that, rosa parks will call malcolm x her personal hero, she will be active against the war in vietnam, she will be active against South African apartheid, showing a picture with my favorites in the book about an older rosa parks protesting outside the South African embassy, she will continue until the end of her by saying the struggle is not over, there is much injustice in this country and she will be resolved to keep fighting but yet the way rosa parks is taught is a problem we salt in the past but the actual rosa parks says theres much more work to be done. Susan siegel host how did you do the research on this book . Guest i had to do a lot of digging. I did all sorts of oral history interviews, in part because part of rosa parkss favors were caught up in a dispute over her stage, got the papers
What the war was over was about the continues to play out in a variety of different ways. My real question is on the 1903 world series. To counterfactuals. Even if mcclellan had won that election he would not have taken office until march 4, 1865 when the war was virtually over. Over. Do you really think he would have exceeded to the southern demands that they be aa separate country . And if lincoln had gone on with the radicals have done to him at least a modified form of what they did to johnson . Let me just say one thing that will connect baseball to lincoln i can do that. Theres a wonderful political culture that shows Lincoln Holding a bat and the other three candidates holding balls using baseball is a metaphor for which candidate should be elected. Elected. Lincoln is talking about striking the ball fair and hitting a home run lincoln wrote a blonde memoranda beforehand saying in the event he lost he felt it would be his duty before the inauguration of the next president to res
What the war was over was about the continues to play out in a variety of different ways. My real question is on the 1903 world series. To counterfactuals. Even if mcclellan had won that election he would not have taken office until march 4, 1865 when the war was virtually over. Over. Do you really think he would have exceeded to the southern demands that they be aa separate country . And if lincoln had gone on with the radicals have done to him at least a modified form of what they did to johnson . Let me just say one thing that will connect baseball to lincoln i can do that. Theres a wonderful political culture that shows Lincoln Holding a bat and the other three candidates holding balls using baseball is a metaphor for which candidate should be elected. Elected. Lincoln is talking about striking the ball fair and hitting a home run lincoln wrote a blonde memoranda beforehand saying in the event he lost he felt it would be his duty before the inauguration of the next president to res