The eighth annual savannah book festival and to thank the 2015 presenting sponsors Georgia Power and barack and jean aircrosser. We are blessed to host such as celebrated sorry. At Trinity United Methodist church. A beautiful historic venue made possible by the generosity of an and jim howard, the International Paper foundation, the Savannah Morning News and savannah magazine and we also would like to saying cspan for coming to the festival and filming here live today. We would like to extend special feeling to our individual donors to make the free festival event possible. If you would like to lend your support we welcome your donations and provide yellow x for books at the door as you exit. Take a moment to be sure your phones are off and we would also ask you not to use flash photography but the question and answer portion we ask you line up down the center of the aisle. And we will be there without microphone. Please note that if you are coming tomorrow, the time is 3 00. Immediate
We have a board of directors consisting of judges who sit in three divisions of the Eastern District the ox andrea and north which division and we have attorneys to serve on the board as well. By tying the story of the Historical Society is a story of really some very key people that help society get started in 2006 and i would like to think the specific individuals. The first is u. S. District judge james spencer. He was the chief judge for the same district in 2006 and instrumental in helping our society get it started. There were several judges involved in the project that we will hear about today the society itself but there are a couple that deserve no. U. S. District judge Claude Hilton who sits in the Alexandria Division was sentimental and judge henry martin junior who sits in the Northern District in u. S. Bank Bank Bankruptcy judge just as the thais who retired in 2013 was a bankruptcy judge in richmond. Last but not least on the stage u. S. District judge henry hutson. Judge
Circle award in nonfiction. All this and more on booktv, television for serious readers. For a complete schedule for today and for this coming weekend, booktv. Org. Next, from the first bill of rights day book festival, yuval eleven discusses his book the great debate edmund burke, thomas paine and the birth of the right and left. [inaudible conversations] [applause] ladies and gentlemen welcome to the second installment of our thrilling, firstever National Constitution center bill of rights book fair. For those of you who are joining us for the first time on cspan let me introduce this great event briefly one more time. Im Jeffrey Rosen the president and ceo of the National Constitution center which, as our audience knows, is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. And this book festival is part of a daylong celebration today december 15th bill of rights day, which is the 225th anniversary of
I feel like a cousin who has come to tell you about your family uninvited. Even if you dont think that i am right at all. Thank you. I am asked most often about this book John Quincy Adams my answer is just this. In the course of getting to no his parents with whom he corresponded safely and lengthily and with enormous affection. Go ahead. Okay. And lastly as it may seem i came i came to abigail and john adams as has just been said the New York Times and was riding. Go ahead. Try again. All right. Maybe that is a sign from on high. [laughter] i was a little bit productive when we then celebrated editor and designer called to ask if i would be interested in doing a book on 50 Historic Houses the author had been made but she had no time for it on the strength of an article i had written for magazine she thought the subject with appeal to me. And so we was right. In the course of researching one of 50 houses, the adams house my house, my son john, found the letters of misses adams those o
Neighborhood you grow up in there is always that kid who is kind of a wild kid, who will do anything and in my neighborhood that was teddy hannibal. One day we were sitting out there on the roof feeling very daring and he is like what is up . Next thing you knew, his head popped out the window and he started climbing out, never asked permission just started climbing out and as he did so he goes have you ever jumped off the roof . Are you kidding . I dont even like to get close, almost fell off. I dont even like to get close to the edge of the roof. Go like that, you want to get really close to use to get on my hands and knees and crawl out so teddy animals that have you ever climbed off, jumped off the roof as he is climbing out the window and as he says that he starts walking to the edge and keeps walking and walked right off the edge of the roof and we all went running over teddy had double was gone and next thing you know his head pops out the window again and this time he didnt eve