They volunteer firefighter played a part in the capture of a serial arsonist and San Francisco and became friends with author mark twain over drinks and cards and his childhood stories became immortalized in mr. Twins books. It all happens tonight on cspan2 book tv. So i was thinking about the word to describe your book. I finished reading it. And the only word that came to my mind, and i have to confess, i never used this word, as i was a little bit uncertain, magisterial. The scope, dips, authority of the book was just really pretty staggering in terms of what your government. A lot of wonderful topics that people like me resonate to. Net 1951, questions about derivatives, all sorts of questions and issues that about class stiegel. Pretty interesting in terms of the depth and the capability of thinking about those issues. It turns out there should be careful using the word magisterial because i had to look it up. It means both authoritative and pedantic, dont mean it in that sense. I
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From college. We stopped off in connecticut. I had been corresponding with the big expert on the earliest for motor cars in the world, and the country certainly. I had some technical issues i wanted to get right. Start . An early car we all know you have to crank them, but how do you do the other things . We roll in suburban connecticut to say hello. He has a garage full of model cs. From the 1900s, mr. Fords earliest cars. Carlton took a shine to forrester. Before we know it, he is letting him drive the modelc. I get in the back wondering why this was a good idea. [laughter] we have a nickname in the family for forrester speedy gonzalez. He is behind the wheel. And these things were not called cars yet. They were horse carriages. You are sitting as high as an suv but it looks as though somebody has cut the reins of forces. Horses. There is no dashboard, there is a windshield. So, carlton cranks it, moves the clutch, gets the fuel flow in. We start zipping down this back road. We pass
Was a wellknown racecar driver before he earned a medal of honor as an ace in world war i. After the war, he was ceo of eastern airlines, owned Indianapolis Motor Speedway for nearly 15 years, and was a motor car manufacturer. He also barely survived two airplane crashes. The National Archives in kansas city hosted this hourlong event on the life of Eddie Rickenbacker. Tonight it is my pleasure to introduce john ross, the author of the epic story of the conquest of americas first frontier. Winner of the prize for contributions to American History, he served as executive editor of the American Heritage and on the board of editors at smithsonian magazine. His articles have been published in readers digest, parade, the new york times, newsweek, and washington post. He has appeared on more than 50 radio and television programs. He has worked with many Pulitzer Prize winning writers. Tonight it is my pleasure to introduce john ross. [applause] thanks, kimberly. Thank you all for coming toni