Book team of rivals was the inspiration for Stephen Spielbergs lincoln in 2012. Doctor goodwin earned her phd at harvard. So coming up, were going to re air her in death appearance where she discussed her entire body of work and took phone calls. Will also be showing you discussions from her books, leadership in turbulent times. In holy pulpit. So well start with a january 1st, 1995 the parents on cspan series footnotes. In this hourlong interview, she discussed franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt in the home front during world war ii. Her book, no ordinary time, won the Pulitzer Prize for history. Now here is historian doris goodwin. Author no ordinary time. If you could ask either Franklin Roosevelt or Eleanor Roosevelt a couple of questions after all of the work that is done. What would you be. I think it would like to understand why she was unable a certain moment in the middle of the war when he asked her to be his wife again and stop traveling and stay home and take care of him, and i
Count 1191 books in. On Abraham Lincoln. More than john Kennedy Franklin roosevelt and Robert Kennedy combined. Guest i knew i wanted to live with him and i had to have a leap of faith that i could find something that would be my own way into it but the last one on Eleanor Franklin took six years longer than world war ii so i knew this would be a fundamental. He turned out to be the best companion i could imagine. Host how did you begin the process class guest at first i read. I hope its beginning to do a book about marriage the way ive done with eleanor and franklin but i realized they couldnt hold the public side of the story the way eleanor did. I realized he spent more time with the members of his than with mary. He was married to them more protected tense time theyd wait for news from the battlefield and go to the front of relax at night. These are the guys im interested in when it turned out theyd been as rivals beforehand that i finally realized that got my story. Host book came
Intersection of president ial history and politics. Its something that has been a passion my whole life. Has been fun to do that writing now. And to publish a book. And we want to talk to you about that book. The concept comes from many years ago. I started to notice the relationship between these at 44 men who has served as president sometimes Good Relationship sometimes really bad. I began collecting these quotations and then i started thinking about the political environment that we live in today. These quotes and the snipes have been around since the founding of our country. A lot of these guys did not get along. Sometimes they got along and then they did it. The early parts of their careers great friends. They found themselves in different Political Parties. And then about a dozen years before the death adam writes the heart warming letter to anderson. I always think that is such a good statement that we can learn from today how do we explain ourselves to one another. In this poli
Good afternoon, everyone. Joining uso much for for the American Civil War symposium. Ordinary people, extraordinary times. T up on our roster where she received the 2016 great teacher award. She taught previously at the state of at the university of new york in the state of albany. She received her phd studying under dr. And dr. Gallagher. Dr. Taylor is a member of the board of editors of the journal of southern history and advisor editor for the civil war monitor magazine and coeditor of the university of Georgia Press is on civil war series. Her current book project of the manyy thousands of men and women and children who fled slavery during the civil war and examined how their day to day experiences shaped the way emancipation unfolded in the United States. Book derived from her dissertation provided family in the civil war. In 2005. Published that book is the topic of her program today. I present to you dr. Amy morel taylor. It is indeed a real pleasure to be back here in virginia,
No matter where you come from, if you are blessed enough and fortunate enough to rise to a level that she dont forget there are other people that are facing many obstacles, too and its incumbent upon you to take them out of it them as well. I think its just a great read. It is a human american story that i think in our time we could all benefit, just to be reminded that we are all in this together. [inaudible conversations] good evening, everyone. Welcome to National Press club. The washington correspondent in the 109th president of National Press club. And the author of an imperfect union in the aftermath welcome to our Live Audience today as well as hes been the tv. In his new book, check exports of the gettysburgs most stories searching for his soldier son in the haze of the battle while also touching on the journals of practice. In the full measure of devotion. Jim baron said of the imperfect union, hes perfect though, one that contains an aerial intimate view of the cost of the gr