Robert wilson is with us today courtesy of paul and heather hamilton. Bob is the author of Matthew Brady, portraits of a nation and the explorer king, a biography of Clarence King. He is the editor of the american scholar, former editor of preservation and the founding literary editor of civilization. A former book editor and columnist for u. S. Today and a former editor at the Washington Post book world. His essays reviews and fiction have appeared in numerous publications, including the american scholar, the american short fiction, the atlantic monthly, the new republic and the smithsonian, Washington Post magazine and the wilson quarterly. And on the oped opinion and book review pages of the boston globe. The New York Times, u. S. Today and the Washington Post. He lives in manassas, virginia. Please give a warm savannah welcome to robert wilson. [applause] thank you, chris. I appreciate that introduction. Im hoping your app works better than the app that was done for. He Iowa Caucus
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By con batting and with words. I am mike nelson, im the guy you had to put up with during first panel. Fortunately we have a new cast of people to add their voices to the wonderful voices you have heard from the scholars who are on the first panel. Weve got miller saturday, people here one of its main emphases is to focus on studying the presidency indepth, historical depth, with objectivity, and other words we are all in the business of doing stuff that and editorial cartoonist is not in the business of doing which is reacting to events on a day to day basis more than 10,000 times in his 60 plus years as a newspaper cartoonist, and where we all strived to be as objective as we can, the job of the editorial cartoonist as well as anybody whos ever done, it to provide comments, opinion, something to provoke discussion, rather than aspire to subtle discussion. The panel today, this afternoon, which will cover the president s from george bush i dont use the h. W. He was george bush when he
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