Author timothy eagan. This is live coverage of the tucson book festival. Good morning, welcome, im going to be moderating this conversation this morning with timothy eagan. I want to expand thanks to cspan tv and book tv for sponsoring and will last approximately one hour, including questions and answers till the end of the panel immediately following the session tim will be autographing books at the bookstore, thats 153 by the university bookstores. Because youre enjoying the festival and im sure you all are, please consider joining the festival of the tucson festival of books. So become a friend by visiting the Student Union ballroom or go into our website. Out of respect for the author, please turn off your cell phones, now, if you would. This morning its our pleasure to have timothy eagan. The worst hard time and the National Best seller the big burn. Tims current book just released last week is entitled to immore eat irishman who became an american hero, a biography of thomas mar.
Guest once the government started using housing as a way to improve the economy, in other words, to improve the american peoples view of their government and how successful it is then it became a political issue instead of what it had been before which was simply a question of making sure that the market functioned well. Youre watching 48 hours of nonfunction authors and books nonfiction authors and books on cspan2s booktv. Television for serious readers. The 2014 Guggenheim Lehrman prize in military history, worth 50,000, was awarded on march 23 2015, in new york city. And now on booktv, the finalists from the prize read selections from their books followed by the award being announced. This is about an hour. [inaudible conversations] good evening. A great pleasure to welcome all of you here this
We are advantage evangelists on behalf of the study of history. And one of our judges in a conversation today began talking about a High School Teacher he had had when he was 14 or 15 years old. And that teacher, and teachers of adolescents are the Unsung Heroes and heroines of our profession. Thats when you plant an abiding, lifelong affection and even addiction to history. One to have historical muses has been sadly, neglected in the American Academy the american university, for a generation. And one of the ideas of our founders, one of whom i will introduce to you in a moment was that something that the h. F. Guggenheim family could go to arrest could do to arrest this malady and reverse it, is support an annual prize for the best work of military history in english during the preceding year. Finish and that is why we are here this evening. History, as written by practitioners of it who have produced works that indicate enlightened research, who write gracefully, who have in the bac
A divisive and polarizing effect on the population very unlike the perfect harmony and civility of our present day. So over a period of 13 days as lincoln is making his way by train from his home in springfield, illinois, to washington, d. C. For his inauguration as president , the air is filled with rumors of an assassination plot. In maryland where his train will pass below the Mason Dixon Line for the first time, there are rumors that hell be shot or hell be stabbed, or his train will be blown up at a whistlestop appearance in baltimore. Allen pinkerton of the legendary Pinkerton Detective agency is on the scene. Hes already there in baltimore x he has just or and he has just under two weeks to uncover hard evidence of this looming plot before time runs out. What makes the situation even more difficult and more dangerous is that theres no good way to get from springfield to washington at this time. Americas railroads are expanding at a fantastic rate, but theres no single, direct ra