Nominated twice for the pulitzer prize. The author of i think one of the great books about the civil war, america which was in the library a few years ago talking about it and talking about the importance of the evangelical religion in american politics leading up to the civil war and in some senses, the decline of evangelical religion, certainly the righteousness of evangelical religion after the civil war in the beginning of postreconstruction era and jim crow. It is i think a great book that refrains from what we have thought about the civil war and what we thought about race and religion in america. In a sense, you get his generation whose new book, when government was good is the subtitle. It may seem like a distant path for some of us today. We phrased also the conversation about the place of government in American History and particularly executiveleadership. Its really a book about truman and eisenhower and johnson who was the coda about those who came after. Here in kansas cit
The International Center for jefferson studies at monticello and she is the author of several books, including unwise passion, a true story about a remarkable woman and the first great scandal of 18th century america. Monticello and most recently, we are all here today to learn about his wonderful, entertaining new book how not to get rich the financial misadventures of mark twain. Please join me in welcoming alan crawford. [applause] alan thank you, jamie. We are all familiar with the story of how mark twains death was greatly exaggerated. There were two times in which this took place. The first one was in 1897 in london. The second one, the one he will today,out the first time , three yearsn 1907 before mark twains death. This was during his last visit to the old dominion. He had come here for the jamestown exposition. The jamestown exposition was a theds fair, celebrating 300 anniversary of the First Permanent English Settlement in the new world. Exposition were steam engines, new f
Is professor ron miller on his book sellout. When you and i spoke on the phone to book this interview, you said that since moving to lynchburg, the perspective had changed. Can you explain that . When i wrote the book i was on the outskirts of washington, d. C. , and the center cover that has an influence on the perspective and view of things and i was politically active at the time so all of those things made the book not only a memoir explanation of how someone could grow up in a family and cited with very conservative values and then end up becoming politically conservative. Coming into the present situation of lynchburg, it is an academic perspective and since it is a private christian institution, the logical perspective came up to play as well. I think a lot of the issues that i talk about in the book were Political Solutions that look to more spiritual solutions. Particularly since the community that i dont live here but just Liberty University that lynchburg has given a differe
Jamie now onto our speaker today. A former Senate Speech writer Alan Pell Crawford has reviewed books on u. S. History, politics and culture for the wall street journal since 1993. Alan has been a resident scholar at George Washingtons mount vernon. My previous employment, the International Center for jefferson studies at monticello and the boston and the name. He is the author of several books, including unwise passion, true story of a remarkable woman and the first great scandal of 18th century america. Twilight at monticello, and most recently, what we are all here today to learn about his wonderful, entertaining new book how not to get rich the financial misadventures of mark twain. Please join me in welcoming alan crawford. [applause] alan thank you, jamie. We are all familiar with the story of how mark twains death was greatly exaggerated. [laughter] alan there were two times in which this took place. The first one, the one we are all familiar with, was in 1897 in london. The sec
Good evening ladies and gentlemen as director of the library we have professor of history at the university of North Carolina nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize in the author one of the great books about the civil war talking about the importance of religion of american politics leading up to the civil war with the decline of evangelical religions after the civil war with the post reconstruction era and jim crow. It is a great book that refrains for race and religion in america. In his new book when government was good that may seem like a distant past we heard about the place of government and with executive leadership it is a book about truman and eisenhower with those who came after with the truman president ial library we know a lot about truman and his executive leadership with form policy with the great decisionmaking without domestic policy and in particular with race and those inequalities that we are very concerned with today but to use those executive powers of the presid