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Good evening, everybody. Good evening. Im eric the executive director of the. [inaudible] and behalf of the society i am pleased to represent tonight in conversation our chairman robert should be giving this introduction and i know this would have meant a great deal to him. Unfortunately, hes a bit under the weather and he sent me instead. Its a great honor to make the introduction. Its been said that theres the story and then the real story and then the story of how the story came to be told. The book 50th anniversary we celebrate tonight making it by our guest of honor Norman Podhoretz is an important story in any way you look at it. Good promotion there. [laughter] tonight will tell the story behind the story. In his book, norman says all writers become famous go through ups and downs. These fluctuations reveal less about the writers actual work than they do about the changing fashions of the time. Heres how he put it in his own words 50 years ago every morning a stock Market Report
Good evening, everybody. Good evening. Im eric the executive director of the. [inaudible] and behalf of the society i am pleased to represent tonight in conversation our chairman robert should be giving this introduction and i know this would have meant a great deal to him. Unfortunately, hes a bit under the weather and he sent me instead. Its a great honor to make the introduction. Its been said that theres the story and then the real story and then the story of how the story came to be told. The book 50th anniversary we celebrate tonight making it by our guest of honor Norman Podhoretz is an important story in any way you look at it. Good promotion there. [laughter] tonight will tell the story behind the story. In his book, norman says all writers become famous go through ups and downs. These fluctuations reveal less about the writers actual work than they do about the changing fashions of the time. Heres how he put it in his own words 50 years ago every morning a stock Market Report
Evening especially would have meant a great deal to him. Unfortunately, hes a bit under the weather, is so he sent me in his stead. Im humbled and honored to make the introduction. Its been said that theres the story and then the real story and then the story of how the story came to be told. The book whose 50th anniversary we celebrate tonight, making it, is an important story any way you look at it. [laughter] and tonight were going to tell the story behind the story. In his book, norman says that all writers who become famous go through ups and downs. These fluctuations, he says, reveal less about the writers actual work than they do about the changing fashions of the times. Heres how he put it in his own words 50 years ago. Every morning a stock Market Report comes out on reputations in new york. It is invisible, but those who have eyes to see can read it. Did so and so have dinner at Jackie Kennedys apartment last night . Up five points. Was so and so not invited to meet the lates
It is a pleasure to welcome on our panel from my left to right the politicalf life of Abraham Lincoln volume one, a selfmade man, sidney blumenthal. And richard burr kaiser, the author of founder son a life of Abraham Lincoln. Author, not the only of the recently published american ulysses, a life of ulysses s grant, but a biographer of Abraham Lincoln, an author of a lincoln and expert of lincolns writings, harold wright. Welcome to you all. [applause] youur goal is to hear from and to see if we can evoke differences of opinion. The evil certainly welcome audience the well certainly we will certainly welcome audience for dissipation. I will give you a single to line up and engage with us. The first person i want to talk to in relation to lincolns inspiration are the three sets of parents. The three sets of parents in his life. You have all written about them. By the three amine the woman he referred to as his angel mother, nancy lincoln. The woman regarded him as his son, his stepmoth