Author of numerous books including lincoln and the power of the press. Served as chief historian for New York Historicals 20092010 exhibition, lincoln annual lincoln in new york. Begin, i ask that you please turn off your cell phones and other Electronic Devices and please join me in welcoming our guest. Thank you. [applause] mr. Holzer good evening. Happy lincolns birthday. So proud and grateful to be asked to do another birthday talk here at the New York Historical society. Two years ago, it was snowing. T year it was sleeping sleeting with ice. President was another who would not be unhappy about global warming. Just a guess. [laughter] i want to give a speech about a speech. , only masterpieces qualified for that kind of analysis so let me call your attention to the fact that his second inaugural address is indeed a masterpiece. I think most of you already know the speech, at least the most familiar part of it with malice toward none and charity for all. That phrase long ago became
Depending on who is sitting where and your background, you might find some comments controversial. I have read all the books today and enjoyed all three of them. Happyk you will be very with them. Don, we have a long leash and ship. Started off. We have a long relationship. Start it off. He convinced me i needed to know more, so thank you for being here. Teacher and friend, thank you. I appreciate you being here. Command is not a doctrine, a philosophy. Why i would the book. Why i wrote the book. I think the u. S. Military has great people and recruits well but it continues to remain in the Industrial Age in management and development. I will not use the word training, because training is one aspect of learning. Mulkey, ioes got into his papers. The main thing people keep saying, why do use germans as an example . I get the typical american response, we beat them in two wars. They wrote more in more detail than any country on how to develop people. I want to lead off with a Chuck Richa
Launch of on the clock by emily. Please give her a round of applause. [applause] and we would also like to welcome jessica who will be joining emily on the stage or in the chairs. So powerhouse, where an independent bookstore so events like this help us stay here in changing neighborhoods. I encourage everyone to buy a book if you do not have one and im sure emily will be happy to sign them. So tonight we will hear a little reading from a book, conversation, q a and then the worst job reading. Before i bring them up let me read some bio. Emily guendelsberger has worked at the Philadelphia Weekly in the Philadelphia Daily News and contributed to the philadelphia inquirer, Washington Post, political magazine and vice, and jessica is a producer of nomad lynn, awardwinning journalist who focuses on subcultures in the dark corner of the economy. She has written for harpers magazine, New York Times and Washington Post and also teaches at Columbia School for journalism. Give them a round of a
[inaudible conversations] hello everyone. I think there is a few more seats if we want to fill up in the front. My name is nick and i work here at powerhouse arena and i think i want to thank you all for being here tonight for the launch of on the clock by emily. Please give her a round of applause. [applause] and we would also like to welcome jessica who will be joining emily on the stage or in the chairs. So powerhouse, where an independent bookstore so events like this help us stay here in changing neighborhoods. I encourage everyone to buy a book if you do not have one and im sure emily will be happy to sign them. So tonight we will hear a little reading from a book, conversation, q a and then the worst job reading. Before i bring them up let me read some bio. Emily guendelsberger has worked at the Philadelphia Weekly in the Philadelphia Daily News and contributed to the philadelphia inquirer, Washington Post, political magazine and vice, and jessica is a producer of nomad lynn, aw
I work here at powerhouse arena. I want to thank you all for being here tonight. For the launch of on the clock by emily guendelsberger. I didnt say that right. Please give her a round of applause. Sorry. Give her a round of applause. Wed also like to welcome Jessica Bruder who will be joining emily up here on the stage in the chair. Powerhouses and independent bookstore so events like this help us stay here and lets say changing neighborhood so i encourage everyone to buy a book if you dont have one and emily will be happy to sign them later tonight we are going to hear a reading from the look, conversation, some q a. For ring her up what they read some bios. Emily guendelsberger worked at Philadelphia City paper, the onion, ap Club Philadelphia we we and the Philadelphia Daily News and contributed to the Philadelphia Inquirer Washington Post political magazine and Jessica Bruder is the author of she has written for harpers magazine, the near times, the Washington Post and she also te