From you in your career. Thank you. Thank you. Booktv continues now on cspan2, television for serious readers. Welcome everybody to a house divided coming to from Abraham Lincoln book shop in chicago. Thank you very much for joining us today. My name is bjorn skaptason, and i will be the administrator for todays program. I just have a little bit of information to cover before we start. First of all the book were discussing today on house divided is tecumseh and the prophet the shawnee brothers who defied a nation and author of the book is Peter Cozzens and you going to meet peter in just a moment when he gets talking with Daniel Weinberg, the host of your show. For someone to tell you something about tecumseh and the prophet. Comes to us from alfred aiken off published and we thank them from publishing the book and helping katie peter on the program with us today. The cost of the book is 35 and it can be ordered from our website. Those of you who are watching this on the live stream, o
leading. all episodes of american history tv lectures in history series are available to watch online, anytime, at c-span dot org slash history. pleas good morning. morning, my name is jonathan white and i am the vice chair of the lincoln forum. it s my pleasure to welcome tom clorox, who is a member of our executive committee to the stage, he is going to give a special presentation and then introduce our next speaker. good, morning everyone. . three years, ago the lincoln forum established an annual book prize. with a cash award of $1, 000, to honor outstanding scholarship on the life and career of our nation 16th president. published in the year preceding the presentation of the award. on behalf of the book prize committee, consisting of michel crowley, christian mick word or and daniel weinberg, it is my honor and pleasure to announce the 2021 lincoln book prize winner, james oakes for his book the crooked path to abolition, abraham lincoln and the anti slavery const
And thank you tonight for cspan for being here. This is a first for me. Maybe you guys are used to this. Im going to cover just a few basic things before we get started. Copies of the book are available downstairs. I think they are at the register. You can purchase them there and then bring them up here to get signed after the event. If you could take a moment silence your phones, i think we would all appreciate that. Youre welcome to take photographs. You can post them on social media, if theyre good. And then after the event, or after the author has finished speaking it will be a q a. Then if you could please wait for a mic, come by with a a microphone so we can all hear your question, that would be great. All right, lets get started. James hornfischer, hes a writer, a literary agent and a former book editor. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller neptune inferno, the last and other 10 can sailors and the ship of goes. Hes widely acclaimed historical accounts of the u. S.
Historical books, photographs, autographs, ephemera, lithographs of all sorts and all pertaining to lincoln, the civil war, us president s and general American History. This is our bookshop lincolnbookshop. Com. The authors voice streams live on all your favorite digital devices which feature author interviews in every book genre. Childrens fiction, science fiction, romance, historical fiction, mystery and we posted such people as cokie roberts, don meacham, wesley clark, Florence Goodwin and many others over our last 11 years. Today you are watching a house divided, dedicated to lincoln, thecivil war and us president s in general. We are live on authors voice so while we are, please send in your questions and give us your name and where you are from so we can acknowledge you as well. Give us your email so that youre not going to miss future authors so that you, your family and kids will not miss authors that they would like to see and interact with. We often signed First Editions of o
This service or that service. When you come here and see whats possible for example we were able to cd enabled chip that could allow you to have 300 megabits per second of the data that would allow you to watch each dtv on a wireless device very easily. Author of numerous books on Abraham Lincoln recalls the four months between president lincolns election and a number of 1860 to his inauguration in march, 1861. During this time the president was pressured by republicans and democrats throughout the country to maintain the union. Its a little over an hour. Welcome to the virtual book signing here at the Abraham Lincoln bookshop as always. Im Daniel Weinberg and i am pleased to have you here. It is a Lincoln Civil war book signing at work. Its a wonderful way for you to build a First Edition signed library with all of the books coming out over the next few years in the lincoln bicentennial which is upon us but also the war that follows the heels there are so many books coming out and we