Mccauleys macaulay honors college, the City University of new york dr. Widmer worked in the Clinton White house as a speechwriter, writer and senior advisor, and since then hes led organizations, including the c. V. Starr center, for the study of the american experience, the John Carter Brown library at Brown University, as well as a Research Center at the of congress. He helped the New York Times disunion series, which i know many of you enjoyed throughout the sesquicentennial. And his latest book is lincoln on the verge. I have my copy right here with me. 13 days to washington is the recipient of book from the lincoln forum, as well as the society of president ial. And its going to be the subject of our conversation today and. Its a wonderful book. Let me get that out of the way. I recommend it to you all. Its a captivating story. I really like how vividly it conveys the human drama lincolns journey from illinois to washington, d. C. February 1861. Hes going to take up the presidency
Lecture. Its honor to introduce to you all, dr. Ted widmer, whos distinguish lecturer at the mccauleys macaulay honors college, the City University of new york dr. Widmer worked in the Clinton White house as a speechwriter, writer and senior advisor, and since then hes led organizations, including the c. V. Starr center, for the study of the american experience, the John Carter Brown library at Brown University, as well as a Research Center at the of congress. He helped the New York Times disunion series, which i know many of you enjoyed throughout the sesquicentennial. And his latest book is lincoln on the verge. I have my copy right here with me. 13 days to washington is the recipient of book from the lincoln forum, as well as the society of president ial. And its going to be the subject of our conversation today and. Its a wonderful book. Let me get that out of the way. I recommend it to you all. Its a captivating story. I really like how vividly it conveys the human drama lincolns
The political history of the coming of the civil war is as important as history can get the only timeause weve ever had in the political system disintegrated. Have three people to talk about this. We have tried to mix the generations. Comment. State general we like to mix the generations. We dont want everyone as old as me. Our first speaker will be pamela brand line. She holds a professorship in Political Science at the university of michigan. She has also taught at ut austin. Historians andof social scientist to. She is the author of two important books. Rethinking the judicial system of resettlement. A title long before the age of trump. That was a slip, i didnt mean that. Honestly. Pamela is going to speak on the of rethinking Party Appeals and capitalist contexts. Lynnecond speaker is josh who is a postdoctoral fellow here at yale. Hes part of the macmillan center. He did his phd at the university of North Carolina at chapel hill. Is teaching a course here at yell on jacksonian de
He serves as the he did his graduate work at the university of pennsylvania where he focused on the history of religion. He also holds a master of divinity agreed. His roster of publications is so long that i am not going to even try to read them all to you. Lzo. Com go to allengue and get a full accounting of not only his publications, but other salient elements of his biography. What i am going to do here is mentioned five books. I think there especially pertinent. I will read them in order. First is called Abraham Lincoln, redeemer president. Lincolns emancipation byclamation published simon schuster. It brought him his second again price. Lincoln and douglas. Published in 2008. It did not when the lincoln prize. [laughter] the next came out from Oxford University press in 2012. In the fifth title is invasion. , the last it brought a third wink and prize to alan. Is currently working on a biography of robert e lee. T will be published b he and i will talk about his work today and ab
Books is doing on the president. I said i dont have time. He said i want you to do one thing. He said alan evans has done a paperback that excerpts his diary, his president ial direry. Take the diary. Take the weekend and read it. I read the excerpts from the diary and i couldnt say know no. I was fascinated. Did you know much about him . I knew he was a tennesseeian. Im a tennessean. I knew his grave shined the capitol. There is no marker in nashville except a plaque on the side of a dirty motel wall. His old home place in columbia is preserved and ive been there many times and been there since. I knew virtually nothing about him and almost nothing that was good. His reputation as a result of what was done to him during his presidency over the mexicanamerican war left him a bad reputation. A reputation as a warmonger and the attacks on him in congress in the latter days of his administration reminded me a great deal of the attacks on Lyndon Johnson at the end of his administration ove