Mexico month author Richard White presents a history of the Transcontinental Railroad. You draws mexico, next author Richard White presented history of the Transcontinental Railroad. Welcome to the meeting of the Commonwealth Club. You can find us on the internet. I am David Kennedy, professor of history emeritus and codirector of the center for the American West at Stanford University and your moderator for this program. This program is being presented with the California Historical society. It is now my pleasure to introduce our distinguished guests, Richard White, also a professor of history at Stanford University and codirector at the bill lane center for the American West with me and the author of the new book railroaded the transcontinentals and the making of modern america. Richard is got to be more precise, the Margaret Byrne professor of history at stanford or he has been since 1998. He previously taught at the university of utah and the university of washington where he took
Mexico month author Richard White presents a history of the Transcontinental Railroad. You draws mexico, next author Richard White presented history of the Transcontinental Railroad. Welcome to the meeting of the Commonwealth Club. You can find us on the internet. I am David Kennedy, professor of history emeritus and codirector of the center for the American West at Stanford University and your moderator for this program. This program is being presented with the California Historical society. It is now my pleasure to introduce our distinguished guests, Richard White, also a professor of history at Stanford University and codirector at the bill lane center for the American West with me and the author of the new book railroaded the transcontinentals and the making of modern america. Richard is got to be more precise, the Margaret Byrne professor of history at stanford or he has been since 1998. He previously taught at the university of utah and the university of washington where he took
Mexico month author Richard White presents a history of the Transcontinental Railroad. You draws mexico, next author Richard White presented history of the Transcontinental Railroad. Welcome to the meeting of the Commonwealth Club. You can find us on the internet. I am David Kennedy, professor of history emeritus and codirector of the center for the American West at Stanford University and your moderator for this program. This program is being presented with the California Historical society. It is now my pleasure to introduce our distinguished guests, Richard White, also a professor of history at Stanford University and codirector at the bill lane center for the American West with me and the author of the new book railroaded the transcontinentals and the making of modern america. Richard is got to be more precise, the Margaret Byrne professor of history at stanford or he has been since 1998. He previously taught at the university of utah and the university of washington where he took
Him, and they were at least two serious attempts where booth was settled, armed, ready to go. The confederates lost and pushed booth over the edge. There are a group of people centered in washington, maryland in that area who are fascinated on the topic. Some of you will know, you can take tours of his escape route. He was on the run for 12 days and then finally captured below fredericksburg, virginia. There are bus tours that you can take. Ego to the place where they finally caught and shot him, make a stop at the home of doctor samuel a mod, the physician who helped with the broken leg. Some are descendents, some are just fans and bus. Thats,. [laughter] invariably it is an interesting collection of people. And there is another group centered around the booth family home. It is the house where John Wilkes Booth was a teenager. There are homes or you can go and step into places where these events occurred. Thank you all. I have to say, it is a great honor to have people come and liste
They will be signing books at the big tent thanks for joining us at the san antonio book festival. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]. Before restarting idled take care of some details san disease ben is here today so if you want to tell your friends about the talk it will be on the booktv web site in about five days. You can watch it when they scheduled it or also on the booktv web site in today because they are over here we just have one microphone for questions so if the audience would please go to the microphone to answer questions asking questions we can get you on camera and on the audio tape as well. I am one of the founders of politics prose san this is a real treat for me to come and introduce Richard Zacks has written his new book chasing the last laugh it has a wonderful subtitle. Mark twains raucous and redemptive roundtheworld comedy tour it was of a great deal of fun to read when i was having some much fun reading it i thought i that the author had even m