Assumed the role as president of the United States. A. J. Baime looks at his book the accidental president. A. J. Baime is an awardwinning journalist, public speaker and occasional onscreen personality in addition to the accidental president , the subject of tonights lecture, fdr, detroit, and an epic quest to arm an america at war and go like hell, ford, ferrari and their battle for speed at glory and lemans. Both won the ken purdy award as best piece of writing for the year. A longtime regular contributor to the wall street journal, and articles have also appeared in the New York Times, Popular Science and mens journal. A. J. Has been a featured speaker at numerous writer festivals and events and has appeared on Numerous National tv stations, including cnbc, msnbc and in various documentary films and tv shows. A significant amount of research at the Truman Library, an archive, 15 million photographs there. Hes very complimentary of the Truman Library. Please look at the comments. We
As best piece of writing of the year. A. J. Is a longtime regular contributor to the wall street journal and his articles also have appeared in the New York Times, Popular Science and mens journal. He has been a speaker at numerous writer festivals and events and appeared on Numerous National tv stations including cnbc, msnbc, and various documentary films and tv shows. Now my couple of comments. This book was the result of a significant amount of research at the Truman Library. We have an archive. Weve got 15 million documents and photographs there. A cracker jakarr kieck archivalh team. He is very complimentary of the Truman Library. If you get the book please read the comments. We love all the credit and praise we can get. We are grateful to a. J. For doing that. I really liked the dedication that he put into this book and for those of us in the truman business and those of us who have photographs of portraits of harry truman in our offices kind of resonates and he dedicated this bo
Very much. Give yourself a round of applause. [applause] this is one of our favorite events of the year and we feel so honored to have been here with us today. I hope that you all come back next year. I want to introduce first susan, professor at william and has written 12 books, four of whom are on roosevelt and the most recent is a blueprint for war, the 100 days that mobilized america. Whats truly remarkable is the way that it zeros in on a specific timeframe and a series of decisions and actions that were made by one president and one specific circumstance. Michael lost obviously has written nine books and is both an nbc news historian and National Archive foundation, White House Historical society in monticello, i could go on for 20 minutes. Although the awardwinning producer for the documentary the decisions that shook the world coming in his new book president s of war, which bill gates ranked as one of the five to read. It looks at a range of decisions that they made to go to w
The good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the 16th annual roosevelts reading festival at the president ial library and museum. Im the director and im so honored to be on stage today with these distinguished historians and supporters of the library. How many of you have been here all day . Raise your hand, okay thank you very much. Give yourself a round of applause. [applause] this is one of our favorite events of the year and we feel so honored to have been here with us today. I hope that you all come back next year. I want to introduce first susan, professor at william and has written 12 books, four of whom are on roosevelt and the most recent is a blueprint for war, the 100 days that mobilized america. Whats truly remarkable is the way that it zeros in on a specific timeframe and a series of decisions and actions that were made by one president and one specific circumstance. Michael lost obviously has written nine books and is both an nbc news historian and National Archive foundation
The good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the 16th annual roosevelts reading festival at the president ial library and museum. Im the director and im so honored to be on stage today with these distinguished historians and supporters of the library. How many of you have been here all day . Raise your hand, okay thank you very much. Give yourself a round of applause. [applause] this is one of our favorite events of the year and we feel so honored to have been here with us today. I hope that you all come back next year. I want to introduce first susan, professor at william and has written 12 books, four of whom are on roosevelt and the most recent is a blueprint for war, the 100 days that mobilized america. Whats truly remarkable is the way that it zeros in on a specific timeframe and a series of decisions and actions that were made by one president and one specific circumstance. Michael lost obviously has written nine books and is both an nbc news historian and National Archive foundation