Saddled with peter radcliffe. Peter is a great friend to this foundation and a personal friend as well and one of the great scholars of Thomas Jefferson. Kevin is also a jd from the university of texas school of law. Hes written five books ive got another book, virginias American Revolution to the republic, 1776, 21840, that is published in 2007 in James Madison and the making of america published. It is a topic ive played that is not than britain. The president s Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and james monroe. Kevin will speak today on his most recent book, Thomas Jefferson revolutionary at revolutionary struggle remake america. Please join me in welcoming someone. [applause] he was a very significant legislature. He was developing in five chapters on major themes in his statesmanship, this contention of his radical mass and his success as a radical statesmen. But to a minute calling jefferson a radical . Start with the true wisdom of historians from an dukes dont immigrate. Another
Bookstores this week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv. Booktv. Welcome to the library of philadelphia. Im a representative jim roebuck and im certainly very happy to be here this evening. Im a native philadelphia and. I graduated from Central High School that my particular [applause] my particular focus tonight is on the fact that i went to college at Virginia Union university in richmond from which ive received a history degree of honors and then i did my masters in charlottesville. [applause] subsequent to that, i tour the history and i like to think about all the right points here. I worked briefly as a legislative assistant and in 1985 was elected to the state legislature where i still serve in an currently the minority or the democratic chair of the house education committee. The library is dedicated to advancing literacy, guiding learning and inspiring curiosity from its awardwinning event series to its programming like the upcoming american president ial se
Interruptions they will be remembered. We have about an hour long presentation and we are past the time given to the speaker and the other to your questions. We have one microphone on the side of it when you have a question you can go up to and use the microphone so we can all hear and it can be on the recording. Afterwards if you wouldnt mind holding up your chairs at the pillar, that would be helpful and then we will have a signing immediately following the presentation. Now it is my pleasure to welcome you. We have politics and prose love having events because where we can open up the discussion about things that perhaps are not often talked about that are taboo topics in the religion and politics. This evening we are going to talk about both of those things. The book is titled why liberals when the call to war even when they lose elections and the battles that define america from jefferson to marriage and in it he went about the reasons for this kind which generally is acknowledged
Booktv. Welcome to the library of philadelphia. Im a representative jim roebuck and im certainly very happy to be here this evening. Im a native philadelphia and. I graduated from Central High School that my particular [applause] my particular focus tonight is on the fact that i went to college at Virginia Union university in richmond from which ive received a history degree of honors and then i did my masters in charlottesville. [applause] subsequent to that, i tour the history and i like to think about all the right points here. I worked briefly as a legislative assistant and in 1985 was elected to the state legislature where i still serve in an currently the minority or the democratic chair of the house education committee. The library is dedicated to advancing literacy, guiding learning and inspiring curiosity from its awardwinning event series to its programming like the upcoming american president ial series that will present compelling programs through the president ial election
So but you know, it is the way we were brought up some socalled standardized english was what we spoke. It was not surprising to me. I am getting a wrap sign. You want to see the debate. Take two more. Okay. Beautiful woman in the back. You mentioned in the beginning that you grew up in terms of class and then structuring class and class, upperclass, lowerclass. Are you surprised that today most we still live in that manner, especially with a lot of gentrification that is going on now. No. No. America is so riddled and it is not just america, america, my god. But it has always been, you know, hierarchical, class based. It is always pretending not to be. America is so strange. We can become donald trump, but we need to move. Prove yourself and dominate whether its money or other kinds of power. That is what this country is you. You know, i am not surprised at all, and there is not any group, some of his members havewhose members have not grasped for that and found it and dont use it. We