Is on cspan3 every weekend. Here is a clip from a recent program. Agent maccarthy, you are modest when i asked you about beingshot and possibly run over by the president s limousine, but you went to the hospital. Did you ever get a chance to talk president reagan about that . A little bit lighter than what we had to discuss come and if you have questions, please come up and i will call on you. I was in the hospital for about 10 days. I did not have a meeting with the president or anything like that. He was injured more seriously and was there longer, but on the last day i was in my hospital, my wife and two of my children came up to get me. My daughter brought her nursing kit to make sure everything was son jeff was my acting like a doctor, so they came to get me and i had a message before i leave to come down and see the president. It sounded like in order to me. Down. Mptly went you werent wearing one of those horrible hospital gowns . I wasnt, but he was, and mrs. Reagan was there.
The executive director of James Monroes home, highland, and she has been the executive director there since 2012. I see that the college of william and mary has moved into their backyard because highland is a department of the college of william and mary. Prior to assuming the leadership at highland, she worked as Archaeological Research manager at monticello down the road from 19992012, so she has been on that road for a long time. When i was in law school, i lived on brown mountain, so i know the area very well. She earned her ba magna cum laude from the university of arizona, then headed east and did her phd at the university of North Carolina chapel hill, and she has also taught at chapel hill in the university of virginia, so we are delighted this afternoon to have sara bonharper, executive director of highland. [applause] sara bonharper what a warm welcome. Thank you. It is a pleasure to be here and a pleasure to be on this lineup and a group that knows so much about monroe. I am
Tweet us at book tv or post it on your facebook page. Good evening. Im the director, and on behalf of our staff, as you know we are finishing the festival week of programming with this lecture. This series focused on mexicos culture, mexicos politics. We had a fence on on drugs, mexican politics, cuba and we actually did a mexican category last night. Talking about this lecture tonight, this is the quintessential point of the festival. This is the Arthur Miller freedom to write lecture. We find work that is relevant to us in the recent years. The lecture has a symbolic place in the programming. Its actually in the last couple of years has been a remarkable occupation. I also have to mention that this year for the first time in the history of the festival, we collaborated collaborated and hopefully our collaboration will continue. Let me bring us the next speaker who will introduce our author. [applause] good evening and thank you to all of you for being here. The mission is to both cel
Have shaped political attitudes, and given rise to political action. Our midmorning session is particularly exciting in this respect. The three historians before you are going to discuss how certain Major Intellectual figures of the long 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries have affected and in some cases may continue to affect american political thought. I will introduce our speakers alphabetically. Claire is a doctoral candidate at stanford university. Her research very well suited to this conversation interrogates the Cultural Exchange in the late 18th century through the cold war. Today she will discuss jon stewart middle, Harriet Tyler mill, and the coalescence of modern liberalism and the america from the 18th to the 1970s with particular attention paid to the middle of the 20th century. Peggy vandenberg is an associate professor of philosophy. At grand valley state university. Her teaching and research primarily concern the figures of the 18thcentury scottish enlightened. This morning
So much of this summit is concerned with the electoral history of progressivism and conservatism. Many of our speakers asked how the ideas and arguments of Major Political thinkers have made their way into the cultural conversation. Have shaped political attitudes, and given rise to political action. Our midmorning session is particularly exciting in this respect. The three historians before you are going to discuss how certain Major Intellectual figures of the long 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries have affected and in some cases may continue to affect american political thought. I will introduce our speakers alphabetically. Claire is a doctoral candidate in United States history at stanford university. Her research very well suited to for this conversation interrogates the Cultural Exchange in the late 18th century through the cold war. Today, she will discuss jon stewart middle, Harriet Tyler mill, and the coalescence of modern liberalism and the in america from the 18th to the 1970s w