Russian town of novels he beares he became popular for uncovering corruption and mismanagement and for his videos exposing the luxurious homes of politicians loyal to the government hes regarded as the leader of the opposition. Now vali has been a thorn in the side of russian president Vladimir Putin for a long time the kremlin has tried to stop now with exclusion from elections prosecution and even jail time but all the efforts have failed so far russians who openly criticized putin are aware of how dangerous it is especially for the leaders of protests and opposition our moscow correspondents met up with some of them. Piotr theres the love knows all too well what it means to enjoy life one day at a time ever since he was poisoned in moscow in 2018 much like opposition activist aleksei never any in august this year unlike now though he showed no signs of the nerve agent not each shark. Always that aboard the ship with 3 of the g. My poisoning was weaker my recovery went faster. By the
2011. It is about an hour. Thank you very much. It is wonderful to be here again. I love this venue. I get lots of good questions, which we will save time for at the end. This is an interesting occasion for me. This is the first time i have been in front of an audience talking about Andrew Johnson. Forgive me if i say jefferson occasionally. I had to write that and do a spell check to make sure i didnt have jefferson where i should have had johnson, because the temptation was actually quite great. If someone had told me a number of years ago that i would have written a book about Andrew Johnson, i would have said you are crazy. Its not that i dont think hes interesting. He really is. Not that i didnt know anything about him. But for most of my career as a historian, i have tried to avoid the period of reconstruction. It sounds strange for someone who writes about slavery, which is a difficult topic to write about, but i find it easier to deal with the 17th century and 18th century, and
Life, i would have written a book about Andrew Johnson, i would have told them they were crazy. Its not that i dont think hes an interesting person. He really is an interesting person. And not that i didnt know anything about him, but for most of my career as a historian, i have tried to avoid the period of reconstruction. And it sounds strange for someone who writes about slavery, which is a difficult topic to write about. But i find it easier to deal with the 17th century and 18th century and attitudes about race and slavery than i do dealing with reconstruction. Theres something about it that is just maddening to me, and i think what it is is that it was a moment of opportunity. When i think of the people in the 17th and 18th century who have very primitive ideas about many, many things in the world, and you know there are lots of things they dont know, i can not totally forgive them, but its not as irritating to me, exasperating to me as a period of time when you have photographs,
Russian town of novelty beers he became popular for uncovering corruption and mismanagement and for his videos exposing the luxurious homes of politicians loyal to the government hes regarded as the leader of the opposition. Now vali has been a thorn in the side of russian president Vladimir Putin for a long time the kremlin has tried to stop me with exclusion from elections prosecution and even jail time but all the efforts have failed so far russians who openly criticize putin are aware of how dangerous it is especially for the leaders of protests and opposition are moscow correspondents met up with some of them. Putative is the law of knows all too well what it means to enjoy life one day at a time ever since he was poisoned in moscow in 2018 much like opposition activist aleksei never any in august this year unlike now finally though he showed no signs of the nerve agent not a chalk. Wasted aboard the ship that was 3 and my poisoning was weaker my recovery went faster than we were
President lincolns assassination. This was recorded at the Philadelphia Free library in 2011. Its about an hour. Thank you very much. Its wonderful to be here again. I love this venue. Get lots of good questions which we will save time for at the end. This is an interesting occasion for me. This is actually the first time ive been up in front of an audience talking about Andrew Johnson. Forgive me if i say jefferson occasionally. I had to write that when i was writing, i did a spell check in there. Because it was the temptation was quite great. If somebody had told me a number of years ago or any point in my life that i would have written a book about Andrew Johnson, i would have told them they were crazy. Its not that i dont think hes an interesting person. He is an interesting person. For most of my career as a historian ive tried to avoid the period of reconstruction. It sounds strange for someone who writes about slavery which is a difficult topic to write about. But i find it easi