Please consider joining the friends of the tucsonoi festival of books. Your taxdeductibleyour taxdeductible contribution allows us to offer festival programming free of charge to the public and support critical literacy programs in the community. Out of respect for the author, please turn off your cell phones. This morning it is our pleasure to have with us timothy egan, pulitzer prizewinning New York Times columnist and author of seven books including the National Book awardwinning worst hard time. The National Bestseller the big burn. Tims current boat just released last week is entitled the immortal irishman, the Irish Revolutionary you became an American Hero and biography of thomas mark. I would like to begin by asking tim, may not be a household word, but there was a time when his name was a household word, both here and in ireland, but he has sadly been largely forgotten crowd, thank you. It is great to be here in this lovely arizona morning, huge crowd, cant believe it. People
Thank you, paul. And thank you all for coming out today. Why are you in here, anyway . I cannot speak for the other speakers, but it is rare for me at least to have the u. S. Senate imposed on the structure i am standing before. It is a privilege and an honor, and i am happy to be here. Congress came together in december 1865 for the First Time Since early march. The war had ended, we were told, and slavery was over too, we were told, but that made for Big Questions left unanswered. And if we assume, as it is so easy to do, that former slaves must clearly not the citizens, we somehow conflate the turbulent events over the next year or two, or three. And i want to catch the wave early on in that unfolding history. The 15th amendment had been shepherded through congress the previous january, thanks to congressman spielberg. Congress had to face its implications. When they met that first week of december, they had reason to think, and rightly so, that word would come real soon than the am
It had become increasingly clear across the war that the abolition of slavery was a likely outcome. And of course, the objective of winning that war had always been a primary pursuit. Suddenly, you get the two in combination, and each left a huge combination to be addressed. What would the now suddenly former Confederate States be . And how to treat them. And who would the nowformer slaves be . What should be their status. Lawmakers, federal or state, had multiple models to work from as they tried to address the question of former slaves. One was white freedom. The same rights, responsibilities, and resources that occurred to anybody, regardless of race. Not regardless of race. Regardless of gender. Of class, of locale, of all the kinds of things. But it requires the antecedent adjective. There was black slavery to be moved away from to some degree. At least two models between countries the former slaves could populate. One would be, pick a random state from the nonsouth as to what the
And has another book out on the famous case of loving versus virginia, which will be out in 2014, called race, sex, and freedom to marry loving versus virginia. It is an honor and a privilege to introduce peter to all of you and turn the podium over to him. [applause] thank you, paul. And thank you all for coming out today. Why are you in here, anyway . I cannot speak for the other speakers, but it is rare for me at least to have the u. S. Senate imposed on the structure i am standing before. It is a privilege and an honor, and i am happy to be here. Ingress came together december 1865 for the First Time Since early march. Told,r had ended, we were and slavery was over too, we were told, but that made for Big Questions left unanswered. And if we assume, as it is so easy to do, that former slaves must clearly not the citizens, we somehow conflate the turbulent events over the next year or two, or three. And i want to catch the wave early on in that unfolding history. The 15th amendment
In that spirit i am so thrilled to day to introduce you to our author Gerard Magliocca. He has written definitive biography of the James Madison of the 14th amendment. You will come to appreciate how important john bingham who drafted that central amendment to protect Civil Liberties and the bill of rights, and this man had no definitive biography written before a and Gerard Magliocca does saving job. The e. U. Also will be riveted in this discussion will eliminate the issues that americans discuss today to understand the origins of our liberties survival briefly introduce our author then begin a conversation. Professor Gerard Magliocca at indiana university. No relation but if it is an honorable name. And from the school of law you ever written three books in over 20 articles and on concurring opinions and before a joining India University he spent two years as a lawyer and one year on the court of appeals and we share a teacher at Yale Law School that had something to do with your re