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diana carlin, theodore sheckels and nichola gutgold examined the qualifications of nine women in politics. that includes olympia snowe, barbara mikulski and elizabeth dole and why they haven t been considered as possible contenders for the presidency. this is just over an hour. thank all of you for coming out. it s great to have you back. great to have you here as new friends. let me start tonight and ask you, you focus in your book on nine women. how did you select those nine women? i think the best answer is we could have looked at more, but within the confines of the book you can only do so much. so we wanted diversity. we wanted democrats, republicans. we wanted different parts of the country. to some extent we wanted different ages. we knew on the basis of nine, you can t make generalizations that are 100% certain. we say as much in the book. our conclusions are hypotheses that other people might now run with, but in order to make even those kind of a hypotheses we
for the next 90 minutes, we will explore the literary culture of this area in the special collections of this state and the country as well. this is the first parish church and it is significant to the story of uncle tom s cabin. in many ways, harriet beecher stowe, by her account and fugue number 23, had a vision of uncle tom being put to death. uncle tom, as you know, is the hero of her 1852 novel, uncle tom s cabin. the story of uncle tom s cabin is that he was a very good slave who is under an unruly owner that is so irritated by him and his goodness that he whips him to death. this is a scene in which the entire novel grows. harriet beecher stowe came from a very religious family who are located in ohio, where she grew up. they were a highly religious family and they weren t antislavery family. she was married to calvin stowe, who was a theology professor and doctor of divinity. her full understanding of the spiritual world in which she lived was all dictated b