We do lots of the events here each year 25300 and assigning all the time over all shot reso welcome back of his interfirst time is great to meet you and i hope youll consider setting up for our newsletter that is at the counter where you could purchase copies after the event were also visit on lined to find out what were doing that way. I just want to say a couple words first about the book jefferson john is a professor of history and a former editor of the journal of southern history he has been interested in jefferson for some time since a 1964 when as an undergraduate he began to study jefferson and was fascinated with him in the new comprehensive biography jefferson is the result of his decadelong fascination and a complete sheet a completion of the arc of his own life and in the review of the new Book Publishers weekly wrote the accomplished scholar well sourced paints the picture as jefferson knew it not confusing understanding with excusing we are very excited to have him here t
More data we need you but the problem is getting worse at a nine Year Experience but if it is and i invite you to a rally tomorrow morning at 10 00 collagen for nonprofit housing is meeting and sure the mayor with the to meet you i invite you all to move the city for word the council is committed. Thank you use heard it here. [applause] he patriarchs about Thomas Jefferson. They start now on booktv. Miss gordon reed won the National Book award and the Pulitzer Prize for her first book [inaudible conversations] good afternoon welcome to the festival and the nonfiction but critic davidd is an honor to be here i have then to a lot of these there are few that are is inviting. Se me . A few housekeeping announcements please keep your phones quiet. There are surveys to complete a negative piece of a gift card is spent on you books will be at the bookk signing area right after the presentation so with that said lets get started it is hard to imagine a better pairing of doctors to discuss Thom
A way of your countrys future or are over the next couple of decades. In it is intriguing question. A lot of the policies eisenhower pursued would appeal he did believe the government had a strong role to play of the for structure of the interstate highway system but he foresaw that the affair state is something that politicians that they cannot control is a runaway train and we saw the future more clearly with americas role in asia and the rise of china, the split without the fate of domestic politics. I can hear the historians it is called Douglas Macarthur a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize a great pleasure. Spee1. Did scenes in so many ways to go back down for if to pull the man one direction but it goes back to and to support that that divide history when dash gary that affects whether not against a major threat spee1 peabody cspan2 t9 you have a book called t11 t15 what is that about did . Guest is a biography one of madisons notes and that was the only favor that we now live that
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Historian Harlow Giles Unger recounts the life of americas sixth president on quincy adams who died in 1848. Quincy adams was some of the second president john adams had a long political career which included, aside from his presidency, ten years of secretary of state, senator, congressmen and miniature. This is a little under an hour. I will start with a very simple question. Was there a moment you said to yourself i need to write a biography of John Quincy Adams . Yes, indeed, there was. A couple years ago when i ran out of any ideas on the Founding Fathers. Others had written on washington, jefferson, madison, and id written on Patrick Henry, james monroe, james hancock. So i pulled out john f. Kennedys cal woods prizewinning book profiles in courage and their in chapter 1 was John Quincy Adams. I thought his name begins with a xu chapter 1. Thats not the reason he was in chapter 1. John kennedy himself a war hero had listed these characters in order of the degree of courage, and he