Welcome to our audience on c span to the 2023 annual James Madison lecture. This year to bedelivered as dr burnett said by the distinguished historian hw brands, a lecture with the uh antiquarian but eerily relevantle, founding partisans hamilton madison jefferson, adams and the brawling birth of american politics. By the way, heres a, an advanced copy of the book um which will be in bookstores soon, i believe, which promises to be a provocative read. Professor brands is the jack s blanton, senior chair in history at the university of texas at austin, which is his doctoral alma mater is the author of over 30 books, two of which have been finalists for the pulitzer prize. And in discussing my introduction, he, he said hed be happy with a brief biography. So im not going to recite all 30 of those titles uh to you, but heres a sampling of them. The money man. Andrew jackson, the age of gold, the First American tr the strange death of american liberalism. What america owes the world. Lone
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