talking about this book, john f. kennedy: the new frontier president nova publishers.com is the website in case you re interested. up next, historian sub for profiles aaron burr, vice president of the united states. he told former secretary alexander hamilton in a duel. mr. brands represents a different standard than your politician to a collection of letters between aronberg and his daughter, theodosia. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. i am delighted to speak here. i was like to speak in washington with where the audiences are well informed and engaged. having just finished teaching a semester for the year at the university of texas, isolated to speech or not it s the people you don t have to be here. there will be no tests. i say this sincerely. i m very flattered you took the time in your evening to come listen to me. i think that my students by and large are interested in the subject, but i know perfectly well that if they did not test, it did, academic papers
of all the people you learned about, who would you not want to meet because of what you learned about them? i can t think of one. i ll tell you why. this book was different for me in form than anything i ve ever done because if you are writing a biography or writing the history of an event or an accomplishment, there is a certain obvious track, a certain structure that s built into the subject. and you re obligated to respect that and cover it, write about it, in all fairness to your reader. the cast of characters is already ordained. with this book, i could cast the book myself. i would pick the people that i wanted to write about. it probably 12 major characters in this book. probably 20-some people overall who appear, americans. but that s a fraction of the number that went to paris during this 70-year period that i m covering. so in organizing the book, organizing my approach to the subject, i was in many ways like a casting director. they would come in, show me what th