Of those claims, and why not bring more people to the forefront . I think thats a very all legitimate question, a question. Asked of bob woodward, whose hos books are all anonymous sources. Ed the game change sources, e all of their sources are anonymous too. Wan when you report on current o political battles, its hard to get people on the record. They dont want to lose their access to the people in power. So ive developed over the course of many years during the books that ive written on Hillary Clinton, on barack obama, the last book i wrote was called the amateur i have a rolodex the sources who i have come to depend on who have proven to be absolutely accurate again and again and again. Te they people will talk to me for a varied o f reasons, not the least of which they like to see themselves as quite important and close to power, but none to will go on the record, and understandably so. Edward klein, our guest to talk about his book blew feud and e it takes a look at tensions cl b
Even in d. C. , from a 15second sound bite, and nationally, the United States government in terms of the vista, and we know more about that, too, sent that tape to every ambassador in the world, to every president of every country in the world, and sent it to the other propaganda of the United States government, one of those places, and ran on television. Thats peoples memory. But some of the barry haters have contributed to it, too. And thats all part of what you have to go through. Im not fazed by it. Satisfy the people of washington, d. C. , as long as i give them some hope and some help, then they can write what they want to write about me. I dont care. [ applause ] you get that, mike . I dont care. I want to thank you so much for coming here tonight, and i also wanted to give you this is actually a very precious object. I dont know if youve gotten one of these before. Its the National Press club coffee cup. Ive got two of those. Now youve got triplets. Thank you so much for coming
The war. It was what they experienced. Marshal was a virginian. He was a bit of a backwoods virginian, but he fought in a number of the battles in new jersey. But he became part of something that was a lot bigger than virginia. And he got to know people from many different states, many different backgrounds, and it changed, it changed him and he began to think of the United States as his country. Not virginia. And he became to think of the government as the government of the United States, not the government of virginia. And of course, this gets revisited in the american civil war. This is exactly whats happening. The secession begins. These states are asserting the rights that they retained when they voluntarily became a part of the federal union. The view of lincoln was thats not true. You cant leave. Youre in it, you stay in it. But its primarily over the belief of the Southern States that they were the primary unit. They had given certain things to the federal government, but they
25 years ago, john herzog approached this young woman who had already curated an exhibit on hamilton. That became one of our earliest exhibits. That was joanne freeman. Her history with hamilton is extensive. We have many hamiltonians in the audience. How many of you have read all 27 volumes of the papers of Alexander Hamilton, and several times . Joanne started early reading them as a teenager. Her Extensive Research took her to the hamilton grange in scotland as well as to st. Croix. She immersed herself in the culture by living there for several weeks. She has so much experienced hamilton that she went and fired a black powder dueling pistol. She did this at a gun range. Calling it oddly satisfying, not much of a kick, but a nice full pop and dramatic puff of smoke soon after. We have an historian tried to capture the mood and moment of what it was like several hundred years ago. Her phd work was done at the university of virginia, of all places. A hamiltonian in jefferson country,
Duels with aaron burr, which ultimately killed him. The alexander Awareness Society hosted this event. It is about half an hour. I have the pleasure of introducing joanne freeman. History with the museum and even longer one with Alexander Hamilton. 25 years ago, john herzog approached this young woman who had already curated an exhibit on hamilton. That became one of our earliest exhibits. That was joanne freeman. Her history with hamilton is extensive. We have many hamiltonians in the audience. How many of you have read all 27 volumes of the papers of Alexander Hamilton, and several times . Joanne started early reading them as a teenager. Her Extensive Research took her to the hamilton grange in scotland as well as to st. Croix. She immersed herself in the culture by living there for several weeks. She has so much experienced hamilton that she went and fired a black powder dueling pistol. She did this at a gun range. Calling it oddly satisfying, not much of a kick, but a nice full pop