Life. For six years, we traveled to six cities and bringing the book cities. Watch more at cspan. Org cities tour. We are here in the sioux falls Downtown Public library. A few blocks from here on the north end of sioux falls, i am a my booknd my roast is about caesar and i. Julius caesar died in 44 bc. Most of the buildings around their argon and his clothes are gone, even the iron daggers that stabbed him have long ago rusted into dust. About the only thing we have left it of Julius Caesar is his breath, air that came out of his lungs and spread their way around the world. T is not just Julius Caesar you can connect him with anyone you are interested in in history. Relatives, people you like or dont like. Air is one of the very few things that connect all human beings throughout history. Even the people who we do not have anything remaining of their lives and know little about them. We do know that its of their of are still around bits their air are still around and we have that mate
Cspan2, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. Booktv, television for serious readers. Hello. My name is nneoma amadiobi, and on behalf of our staff and the store owners, Bradley Graham and Lissa Muscatine i like to argue all to politics and prose. Just want to let you know when we add, which it is eventually get any noisemaking devices, or cell phones, just take a moment and turned them off. To be clear, at the end of the event we ask you to fold up your chairs and bring them against something. We do have an event might after this, you could please leave your chairs with our we would appreciate that. So with that out of the way we can get to our talk today. Winchester and arthur became president in september 1881 after the assassination of james garfield, most americans expected at best a lackluster leader. Scott greenberger book is one of our least beloved president from idealist to politician and back. As he states in the book, it is, hes a good man, he discovered h
With our partners at Elliott Bay Book company. Our civic series in our inside out theories at town hall is a special year for reasons i make clear in a moment supported by the true brown foundation. Our civics programs are sponsored by boeing, the Realnetworks Foundation and partnership. Doctor white will speak 35 or 40 moments and will have time for questions. The mike will rotate that way and be available to you for the q and a later. I would ask you keep your questions concise and in the form of a question so we get to as many folks as possible over the course of the evening, youre sure to have many questions. We have copies of the republic for which it stands available for purchase purchase and Richard White of signature back there. It is a big book, he will cover a lot of material with plenty left unread and unheard. If you dont want to pick up a copy, that is a sales pitch, it is the truth. I want to acknowledge the obvious, this is not townhall. It is a townhall program. As you
Became a lawyer joining the firm of his friend of his fathers, staunch abolitionist. Arthur won the case that desegregated number city street cars. During the civil war, when many were enrhythming. Thises on government contracts he was an honest and efficient quartermaster for the union army, but in years following the would his quest for wealth led him down a darker road. He became a top lieutenant to the allpowerful boss of the new york republican machine. At conklins urging, in 1872 he was appoint collector over thank you new york custom house, the largest single federal office in the nation and a fount of job and fairs that was rotten with corruption. When the custom house find merchants for violation, chet arthur took a cut. Lived in a world of tiffany silver, fine carriages and grand balls balls and had hats and coats importlandded from lon do and owned at least 80 pairs of trouser. When an old college contractsmate item him his deputy was corrupt, chet waved him away. He he said
[applause] so good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the kansas city public library. Robert merry is this is his second presentation in the somewhat hallowed halls of the kansas city public library, fivestar library this week from library journal. Thank you. [applause] hes a graduate of the university of washington. He has a masters degree from Columbia University school of journalism. Hes been a reporter for the observer, the wall street journal, managing editor, executive editor and editorinchief of congressional quarterly, and more recently the editor of the National Interest and the american conservative. The american conservative has, he says its collaborative, but it sounds a lot like robert merry. This is a description of their philosophy. We believe in constitutional government, fiscal prudence, sound Monetary Policy to, clearly delineated borders, protection of civil liberties, authentically free markets and restraint in Foreign Policy mixed with diplomatic acuity. We