well, that s a loaded question peter. wonderful to be with you part of it is that i was born and raised in huntsville, alabama and surrounded by engineers who came to huntsville to in the race to put the man on the moon. so engineering was a very common degree that people pursued i needed money for college. my activist parents were broke and vanderbilt offered me a merit scholarship on forever grateful. i loved science and math and i use the logic of engineering in my writing you could particularly i think see it in my most recent book where i m a self-hot-taught historian, but i bring a systems analysis. to the structures that create racial inequality. so there s a connection there. it s helps me to think critically. well that path began in huntsville, alabama. it went through vanderbilt university and then to oxford university masters in english law jd from harvard. and then a clerkship with supreme court justice thurgood marshall the clinton white house and finally to auth
first in war, first in peace, that was light horse harry. the other thing that people would have known robert e lee for would have been his service in the mexican war and especially on the staff of general scott during scott s fabulous invasion. moving in land to mexico city in 1847. lee served in many respects as scott s eyes and ears performing over and over again feats for scott so much so that scott made the confession that for all the honors he had won in that great campaign to mexico city almost all the credit really belonged to robert e lee, so lee s two thing would have been robert e lee would have been noted before the civil war which taken together don t really do a whole lot to explain to us what we know about robert e lee once the civil war begins. host: we will get into that in just a minute. light horse lee wasn t necessarily a good father, is that correct? guest: he was splendid cavalry commander, carrying out raids during during all kinds of small jobs.
Civil war era at gettysburg also serves ashe director for the civil war era studies program. He did his graduate work of history at the university of pennsylvania where he focused on the history of religion. He also holds a master of divinity degree. His roster of publications is so long that i am not going to even try to read them all to you. Nguelzo. Comto alle and get a full accounting of all his publications and his biography and doings. What im going to do is mention five books that i think are especially pertinent to what we will be doing this afternoon. I will read them in order. The first is called abraham. Ncoln, redeemer president lincolns emancipation proclamation the end of slavery in america. Published by Simon Schuster in 2004. Lincoln and douglas, the debates that defined america. Whitening gettysburg, the last invasion. Published in 2013 which brought a third lincoln prize to alan, he is the only person who is 13. Has won 3. He is currently working on a biography of rob
Good afternoon welcome to the San Francisco Planning Commission regular meeting for wednesday, august 12, 2015, id like to remind the members of the audience that the commission does not tolerate disruptions of any kind. Please silence any devices that may sound off during the proceedings. Speed up and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. Id like to call roll at this time. Commissioner wu commissioner hillis commissioner moore commissioner richards percentage and commissioner president fong is expected to be absent. You can leave the door, sir. Just leave it it will close on its own. Commissioner antonini and commissioner johnson will be in attendance today commissioners, that places you under your is items proposed for continuance items 1 ab at order cord is proposed for continuance item 2 ab at 24 order court is for september 24th item 3 record at a hundred i didnt street it continuance for october 22, 2015, and commissioners further
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