Washington, dc. [inaudible discussion] hello, everybody. Wow, what a treat we have. I am so honored to introduce our next author. Shes a elegant and exciting writer. She is the kind of person that other writers just adore. Stacy schiff, and boy does she know how to pick a good topic. Unbelievable. Even jon stewart whereas interested in cleopatra. She is she brought to life cleopatra in a way that nobody else had and a lot of people knew cleopatra for a long time. Of course, she has won so many prizes, fatherly ridiculous. When she was a child she won the Pulitzer Prize for writing viera about the wife of vladimir nopokoh and a runnerup nor pull later in 1995. And when you see how young she is, its superannoying most of our writerred. Ron cher said even if force forced to at gunpoint, stacy ship would be incapable of writing a dull page or sentence. And david mccullough, always writes best sellers, love what he said about her. History in the hands of stacy schiff is in invariably full o
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The french and we were doing it, by the way, with the support of the church. And the church that was most involved in this was guess which one . The Presbyterian Church which was Woodrow Wilson was a member of. In fact, calvinism in general was the opposite of the anglican church. So what we have here is a argument that democracy is something that is suited only to certain peoples who have had a certain cultural history to them. Well, if thats the case, what are these cultural prerequisites . And here the more i read wilson, the more i became persuaded that there was the dog that doesnt bark x. The dog that didnt bark was calvinism. And it was particularly the covenant of the Presbyterian Church. This was the template for wilson of how democracy comes about. Now, i dont know how many of you belong to the group of churches that today can be called affiliated with presbyterians in terms of their domestic organization, but its not just churches. Its also reformed judaism and explains at l
Consider them to be both wilson experts. To my mind, professor knock has done more than anything totle us what Woodrow Wilson had to deal with, and kell us the history and moments of Woodrow Wilson, to tell us what he confronted and how he confronted it and the development of his own thinking in the world he lived inch professor tony smith is the other side of the coin. Has done more than anyone to tell us why this matters, because frankly, everybody president since wilson its not been a question whether or not they are wilsonian but how much. Still continue to guide American Foreign pop si today or might say coin to haunt American Foreign policy. What Woodrow Wilson said and what professor something i win help us understand in a more forwardgoing way helps drive america today, which is why im particularly pleased to have the author of this book why wilson matters which is a darn good book, to come here and to explain it to us, and then you can go buyure own copy. So, without further a
Consider them to be both wilson experts. To my mind, professor knock has done more than anything totle us what Woodrow Wilson had to deal with, and kell us the history and moments of Woodrow Wilson, to tell us what he confronted and how he confronted it and the development of his own thinking in the world he lived inch professor tony smith is the other side of the coin. Has done more than anyone to tell us why this matters, because frankly, everybody president since wilson its not been a question whether or not they are wilsonian but how much. Still continue to guide American Foreign pop si today or might say coin to haunt American Foreign policy. What Woodrow Wilson said and what professor something i win help us understand in a more forwardgoing way helps drive america today, which is why im particularly pleased to have the author of this book why wilson matters which is a darn good book, to come here and to explain it to us, and then you can go buyure own copy. So, without further a