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Eastern here on cspan 3. ÷ucc why up close view Princeton University professor officer of democracy and black÷u arthur of barack obama the story watch in depth live on sunday on book tv. Zv talks about how artist depicted George Washington. His presentation includes famous portraits by John Trumbull, gilbert÷u stewart and this is jt over an ymzvchour. Something constructive, of course, but also notc lightn by any means, but something a little less serious. By that, i mean, theres going to be a lot of visuals in this and ic figure a visual intelligence of something we can a little bit acclaim to, for those of you who need the moreu traditional sort of scaffolding like an outline. We can start off with two pages of that and thats also what thats all zvabout. For those of you who respond to competitiveness competitiveness. c were just going to weigh through two centuries of works of art x mostlyu painting. I should say a little bitzv about myself first. I said im chief historian.
Good evening, everyone. Good evening. Thats good. Thank you all for being here. My name is kirk brandt, were delighted to have you here for the four evening book talks and i begin by thanking the Ford Motor Company for their partnership, and theyve done a lot for us including endowing this book talk series. Im personally able to welcome back nathaniel philbrick. And i asked to introduce him because whenever i do that, im struck by his bona fides as a true renaissance man. A ba from brown university, and he was a james duke fellow and a worked as an editor at sailing World Magazine and wrote and edited several sailing books, the yachting wind, and the parody. And hes the author of mayflower, as well as a book heart of the sea, National Book award for nonfiction. In 2010 he published a book called the last stand, it was New York Times best seller. It was a New York Times notable book and ala notable book and attempted into a 10 part tv series and adapted as we speak into a 10part series
Digiacomantonio. I wanted to end the series with something instructive, of course, but also, not light and frothy by any means, but something a little less serious. For those of you to respond to competitiveness, i have a couple door prizes i will give out at the end to people who can answer a couple questions that might occur during the talk, but mostly this is going to be visual. We are going to wade through two centuries of works of art, mostly paintings, some statuary of George Washington portrayed in art. I should say a little bit about myself. I said i am chief historian, i am not an art historian, but anyone who appreciates the of doing city history, understands you have to work with art understands that is how people express themselves when they are at their best and sometimes their worst, as well see. When i taught a course at Gw University on George Washington, i made sure there was one lecture on George Washington in the art and i refined it a little bit for todays purposes,
Heres one reality, one fact you cannot negotiate with people that want to till you x. The challenge that want to kill you. And the challenge for us and this administration is that we must adopt a strategy now. A strategy that eliminates the safe haven that isil has, their ability to plan external plots against the United States, against europe and against the rest of the world. And my hope is that we will glean enough information out of the Orlando Attack to guide the policymakers to make the right decisions. Leader . Take a couple of questions, and then weve got to yeah. Yesterday donald trump suggested that the president [inaudible] sympathetic in some way to the terrorists and the killer in orlando. Do you think that was an appropriate way for yeah, im not going to be commenting on the president ial candidate today. If the senate has to act on an faa extension again, which is seeming more likely, would you consider doing energy extenders . Look, there are all kinds of things that co