President s it established and the legacies that left. There is a strong case to be made that november 11, the day that a battered square rigor called the mayflower made safe harbor in a place near what is today in massachusetts. That day should be one of the greatest moments in our national theory, comparable to fourth of july, independence day, and september 17, constitution day. But let me qualify that statement a little bit. As ourk of the pilgrims forebears and we are right to do so but it is important to remember they and the other new puritans that were selling new england at the time did not imagine they were settling establishing the United States of america. Nothing could have been further from their minds. They were doing something entirely different. They were about the business of establishing a place where they could enjoy a pure and uncorrupted church. The early settlers of virginia were motivated by material considerations they wanted, what the spaniards wanted from the
We think of the pilgrims as our forbearers and we have a right to do so but it is important to remember they and the other new englanders settling at the time did not imagine they were settling United States of america. Nothing could have been further from their minds. They were doing something entirely different. They were about the business of establishing a place where they could enjoy a pure and uncorrupted church. The settlers of virginia were motivated by material considerations, gold, wealth, material wealth. The settlers of new england were driven by religious zeal. Most of them were puritans, men and women of a company spent who believed the church of england had not gone far enough to purge itself of its corrupt aspects and would despair of a cleansing renewal ever coming in their lifetimes, and hence their decision to emigrate to the new beginning. In particular were not only calvinists but separatists, meaning they had separated themselves from the aurch of england as they
At that moment, they knew it perfectly well, they, they were going to kill, yes, they were going , they wrote lists, they appointed executioners there and so on, they did not go, for me the most important conclusion in this story is the same as about pushkin, that pushkin did not kill dantes, on the contrary, and this is terrible, but it is beautiful and thats right, these people also. For me , because they were scared, because it would be, if there were weaklings, yes , no, thats most likely a lie, yes, that they didnt kill because someone didnt give them an order, they could have done it like this, they didnt do it because they were bright, kind people who loved their country and were, by and large, faithful to their oath and loyal to their sovereign, we killed our commanders in order to kill our emperor, to whom they were loyal. So and so and not so. Nikolai pavlovich, he knew about the conspiracy, on december 13 he ordered the chief of the main headquarters Ivan Ivanovich in writin
He is a vietnam veteran and a life long aficionado of books, maps, chicago sports, and music. This afternoon, he will be speaking on his latest book, the tragedy of u. S. Foreignpolicy, how americas civil religion betrayed the national interest. [applause] thank you very much. It was a wonderfully brief introduction, except you left out my doctoral dissertation. [laughter] mr. Mcdougall i thank you all. The turnout is fantastic. I will try not to let you down. , this is a homecoming, or would be, if the Woodrow Wilson center had not changed so dramatically over the years. I was a wilson fellow in the early 1980s and rose most of my pulitzer prizewinning at the wilson center. Was in those days, it the Smithsonian Castle building, presided over by jim billington, his assistant, and sam wells. Is sam wells still affiliated . Yes, he is. Mr. Mcdougall god bless him. Back in those days in the Smithsonian Castle, there was virtually no security in the building. Those were the days, right . T
You cant have a novel without an audience and the fact there is this eager public wanting to know about the world around, wanted to know how life works, and he keeps this kind of thread of connection within the novel i think. You had the feeling rebellion against delivery status quo when you stumble into money in 2000 willing to learn about it and talk to bankers about it. At the point, i since you have some animosity towards going on in london. That it wasnt just a detached interest. I started the novel thinking it was going to be a crash. I started a book, describing a bubble, and thinking it would be a dramatic iron in some classic sense, when the audience knows something but the people onstage dont. Michael and i both had our flies undone, that would be a dramatic irony. A daytime tv kind. So my fear was the audience would know. Im describing this at the bank is being pleased with themselv themselves, and the reader would know a crash is coming. So i was really, really interested w