Hello, everyone. I dont know if you can hear me. Thank you for joining us for this effort between the series of american ancestors of the genealogical society, the state library of massachusetts and us, publishers weekly, 2020 bookstore of the year. We are open online and in person with limited capacity. We do local delivery and have Curbside Pickup and a special pandemic newsletter and other stuff so visit us. Before i introduce the guest and moderators, i want to give a few housekeeping notes using crowd cast and some of you may have not used it before. The event is recorded so you can watch it back if you only stayed for two nights talk because your water was boiling or you wanted to share with a friend it will be here as well as on our facebook page. A second, there is a lovely chat window on the bottom right where it says Say Something nice. Please do, say hi. I see people have been using it since we started, telling us where you are coming from and of course it goes without sayin
Stuff, visit us before i introduce our guest at our moderators i want to give you a few quick housekeeping notes about using crowd deaths which you might not have used before. The event is recorded so you can watch it if you stay for part of tonights final talk because your water was boiling or you want to share with a friend it will be right here as well is on our facebook page. Second of all there is this lovely chat window open on the bottom of your screen, Say Something nice, please do. Type in, say hi, telling us where you are coming from all over the place it appears, and it almost goes without saying, please keep respectful and we will reserve the right to reserve anyone who doesnt it here to that standard which im sure will be unnecessary. And right next to that little chat box at the bottom of your screen you see the word ask a question, type it in there, chat any questions for david and we will have time at the end of the event to look at those. The event is Live Streaming on
Local delivery and Curbside Pickup and Virtual Events like this one and a pandemic newsletter so visit us online. Before introduce our guest and moderator please one dash i want to give you some tips on using crowd cast the first of all the event is recorded see you can watch it back if you want to share with a friend it will be right here as well as on the facebook page. Second you can use the lovely chat window where it says Say Something nice. Please do. People have been using that since we started telling us where you have come from. And of course it goes without saying one saying keep it respectful we have the right to read on remove anybody. Right next to that chat box you can type it in their and we will have time at the end of the event to look at those it also live streams on facebook we cant see your questions on facebook you have to join us here. Also there is a button at the bottom of your browser we are offering Free Shipping for the link and david is providing us with sig
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Good evening, every saturday night throughout the summer booktv is putting on several hours of a wellknown author. Kind of our twist on binge watching. Tonights featured author s historian David Mccullough the author of a dozen books including bestselling histories on the american revolution, the invention of manned spaceflight the settlement of the Northwest Territory and the creation of the brooklyn bridge. He is a two time winner both Pulitzer Prize and National Book award and appeared on booktv and cspan over 75 times. Coming up over the next several hours we will show you some of those programs. First up in 1992 he appeared on cspans book not programmed to talk about his biography of president harry truman. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for biography and hope to change the view of the truman presidency. Here is David Mccullough from 1992. David mccullough, and your last chapter called citizen Truman Truman had held to the idea of the mythical roman heroes cincinnatus. Whats that