His new book expands everywhere from russia to london to broadway at one point, and its a pretty interesting read. I dont want to give too much away, so without further ado, please welcome peter. Thank you very much. [applause] great. So this is, this is actually a really big pleasure for me to be here at kramers books. It is, in many ways, the culmination of many years of research and efforts to put together what ive always an answer to a question that ive always wanted to ask, and that was who were the other guys and gals, who were the other people who compromised this story of oil. A lot of times we know about john d. Rockefeller, the richest man in the world when he was alive. And today of all days for the release of the soft cover of breaking rockefeller is important because i did not pick this day. But may 23rd is the 80th anniversary of rockefellers death. So 80 years ago john d. Rockefeller on this day died. Some historical symmetry there is always great for someone who likes r
And i suggested kind of a basically, a gave its territory west of the mississippi to spain little cameo appearances, to keep it out of the hands of pocahontas, indians waving the brits. Rifles at wounded knee doesnt if you you look bottom right of really help. A little pink area, red area. And i think on sunday i said if we really did this seriously and effectively, we would come up with a very different narrative of American History. What we would now call haiti. And that may not be attainable and it may not even be desirable because we live in the real we are accustomed to hearing on world. School boards and textbook publishers and so on may have the news that it is one of the problems with that. Poorest countries in the western westernit in so there is another approach. Thats what im going to suggest today. Hemisphere. In 1763, it was a jewel in the is to look at, if you like, french imperial crown because that was the island that produced sugar and coffee. The narrative we have, ri
And i suggested kind of a basically, a gave its territory west of the mississippi to spain little cameo appearances, to keep it out of the hands of pocahontas, indians waving the brits. Rifles at wounded knee doesnt if you you look bottom right of really help. A little pink area, red area. And i think on sunday i said if we really did this seriously and effectively, we would come up with a very different narrative of American History. What we would now call haiti. And that may not be attainable and it may not even be desirable because we live in the real we are accustomed to hearing on world. School boards and textbook publishers and so on may have the news that it is one of the problems with that. Poorest countries in the western westernit in so there is another approach. Thats what im going to suggest today. Hemisphere. In 1763, it was a jewel in the is to look at, if you like, french imperial crown because that was the island that produced sugar and coffee. The narrative we have, ri
[ music ] [ applause ] okay. Hello, there. [ cheering ] do you realize that, uh by now, were on, late at night, and everybody in the country has wished everybody a thanksgiving. Thats right. But, for an everybody on the tonight show, you and your family we hope you had a yeah. Lovely holiday, with your friends, relatives. Do you realize this is our 26th thanksgiving weve spent together . Youre kidding. No. I didnt know that. Twentysix years. [ applause ] [ cheering ] and, when i met you, you changed my whole life, about thanksgiving, cause i didnt know the true story. But you told me that wonderful, intimate story about squanto, the indian, that the thats not in any of the history books that ive ever seen. Now, they dont know what youre talking about. I know, but you told me about him, and i never knew about that. [ chuckling ] what was he, one of the gowie tribe . What was he now, ii must tell you hehe was one o the gowies, wasnt he . You have no idea what youre talkin about. Years ag
American experiences into American History. And i suggested kind of a little cameo appearances, pocahontas, indians waving rifles at wounded knee in 1973. Doesnt really help. And i think on sunday i said if we really did this seriously and effectively, we would come up with a very different narrative of American History. And that may not be attainable and it may not even be desirable because we live in the real world. And School Boards and textbook publishers and so on may have problems with that. So there is another approach. Thats what im going to suggest today. Is to look at, if you like the narrative we have, right, the one that i critiqued yesterday. That east west narrative of American Growth and expansion of the nation. To look at that and identify in that narrative a missing strand. And that missing strand would be the native american strand. What im going to talk about this morning is kind of a large swath of American History where i pull out native american strand out of it a