Publisher Chris Jackson talks about working on the awardwinning book between the world and me and he will attend a Book Release Party for steve hilton, former Senior Advisor to british Prime Minister david cameron. On monday and extra day of booktv. He will hear from annette gordonreed and peter onuf on the intellectual life of Thomas Jefferson, radio talkshow host discusses the importance of the 10 commandments, nprs diane reed shares her involvement with the right to die movement and you will look at the namesake of the john burke society. That is just a few of the authors on booktv this holiday weekend. For complete schedule go to booktv. Org. Booktv on cspan2, 72 hours of nonfiction books and authors this memorial day weekend, television for serious readers. We kick off the weekend with Pulitzer Prizewinning historian annette gordonreed and peter onuf talking about Thomas Jefferson. This is booktv on cspan2. Welcome to the library of philadelphia. I am representative James Roebuck
Believe in the divinity of christ and he didnt believe in miracles. He didnt believe in the trinity. However, im not talking about personal beliefs. Im talking about my understanding of what christianity is for my training of the way i was raised. Also dismissive of jefferson. I was about to say that arguing with peter other unitarian tradition, a unitarian tradition and convinced me that i was being prejudice, that i was being too dogmatic. Confessional moment. Tha yes, Something Like that. That i was not taken jefferson religion, his statement that he was a christian seriously. If you think about it, there have certainly been they were people talk about what gospels with darwin, what gospels would come out. So its not like there was some received tradition that came down unchallenged through the ages. I backed up away from that and i became convinced that he cant call himself a christian, but he was insincere. One of the things he says if he wanted to hear the voice of jesus as a gre
Graduated from Central High School but my particular [applause]. My particular focus is on the fact that i went to First College at Virginia University in richmond from which i received a history degree of honors and then i did my masters and phd in virginia at charlottesville. I am a wahoo as they say. Subsequent to that i taught history for many more years and i like to think about. Depending on all the right points here. I worked briefly in the Mayors Office as an assistant in a 1985 was five was elected to the state legislature were still sir. I am currently the minority or democratic chair of the house of education committee. The free library is dedicated between advancing leaders see, guiding guiding learning and inspiring curiosity from its awardwinning event series to its thoughtprovoking programs like the upcoming american president ial series which will present compelling programs through the president ial election season. It is now my pleasure and honor to introduce the pree
The kind of crisis and concern about what was going on in the states . All of which provided some of the impetus for the creation of a central federal government and that will be the subject of our next class. So ill see. And now for the main event we are so thrilled to have derek baxter here with us today the author of in pursuit of jefferson traveling through europe with the most perplexing founding father. Joining us today from fairfax, virginia where he lives with his wife and children and in his words. They lived quite a peaceful life there before deciding to follow thomass jeffersons travel advice across europe, so he is going to tell you a little bit more about the book and we are so thrilled to have him here derek baxter everybody. Great. Well, thank you. Thank you scuppernong and and cspan. Thank you everybody for watching. So. So yes, this book is about its about me following jeffersons travels across europe and its really it was a chance to learn about a different side of je
And now for the main event we are so thrilled to have derek baxter here with us today the author of in pursuit of jefferson traveling through europe with the most perplexing founding father. Joining us today from fairfax, virginia where he lives with his wife and children and in his words. They lived quite a peaceful life there before deciding to follow thomass jeffersons travel advice across europe, so he is going to tell you a little bit more about the book and we are so thrilled to have him here derek baxter everybody. Great. Well, thank you. Thank you scuppernong and and cspan. Thank you everybody for watching. So. So yes, this book is about its about me following jeffersons travels across europe and its really it was a chance to learn about a different side of jefferson that we dont often hear about we all know about the younger jefferson who wrote the declaration of independence at the age of 33, and we probably know something about jefferson as an older man when he was president