[inaudible conversations] good evening, everyone. Thank you all for being here. Im the president of mount vernon we are delighted for this installment and i begin by thanking the Ford Motor Company for their partnership. Theyve done a great job including this book talk. Im pleasei am pleased to welcor nathaniel. Its his third time. Whenever i do that im struck by the true renaissance man. They have an m. A. Where he was a fellow and an all american sailor asailor at the universite worked as an editor and several books including the passionate sailor, second when and if the parody. He is the author of mayflower as well as the book many of you know won the National Book award for fiction in 2010 if one a New York Times best seller and its been adapted into a tv series and is being adapted in the experience film posters last stand. The good news this evening is the moment in the american revolution. And in the revolution that he spoke about they won the 2013 new england book award for non
With Andrew Winning the game even though he didnt come up with the correct response, winning it by just 1. Whats going to happen today with liz and todd . Well, lets start finding out. Good luck. Here we go. Lets take a look at the categories, shall we . Sounds like fun. Hey, theres a trend. Well, maybe there isnt a trend. Andrew, start us. Ill have some whiskey for 200, please. Liz. What is oak . You are right. Oscar for 200. Andrew. What is the incredibles . Todd. What is birdman . Good. Lets go with nato for 600. Todd. What is quebec . Right. Nato for 800. Liz. What is unwielding . No. [ beep ] what is uniform . Todd, go again. Nato for 1,000. [ beep ] n is november in the nato alphabet. Back to you, todd. Charlie, 800. Yes. Oscar for 600. Heres al gore with the clue. Andrew. What is an Inconvenient Truth . Thats the title of the film. Oscar for 800. Todd. What is raging bull . You got it. Oscar for 1,000. Liz. Who is faye dunaway . No. Todd or andrew . [ beep ] who is Jessica Lange
Thank you, johnny, and welcome, ladies and gentlemen. Amaze me how important in resolving our matches. As we discovered yesterday with Andrew Winning the game even though he didnt come up with the correct response, winning it by just 1. Whats going to happen today with liz and todd . Well, lets start finding out. Good luck. Here we go. Lets take a look at the categories, shall we . Sounds like fun. Hey, theres a trend. Well, maybe there isnt a trend. Andrew, start us. Ill have some whiskey for 200, please. Liz. What is oak . Andrew. What is the incredibles . Thats right. Oscar for 400. Todd. What is birdman . Good. Lets go with nato for 600. Todd. What is quebec . Right. Nato for 800. Liz. What is unwielding . No. [ beep ] what is uniform . Todd, go again. Nato for 1,000. [ beep ] n is november in the nato alphabet. Charlie, 800. Andrew. What is afghanistan . Yes. Oscar for 600. Heres al gore with the clue. Andrew. What is an Inconvenient Truth . Thats the title of the film. Oscar for
And its runup were enormous. So its possible but i didnt detect any kind of shift in coverage that led to a distortion in how the news media was covering it because there were other big events. The Oklahoma City bombing. For once it not it was an event that not oj off of the front pages. Thank you. Thank you. Foster campbell thank you. You spent a lot of time researching 1995 but im wondering 20 years from now when we look back more recently and think i was a watershed year much like 1985 . I think its still fairly recent. I think we will have a second edition. More recently. Is a really good question and obviously as john mentioned at the outset 2001 is going to be remembered as a watershed year. What other possible years would there be . I dont know, 2012, 2008 with the election of barack obama. That might be seen as a watershed moment. You know it takes what to store code historians call critical distance to really begin to appraise and analyze and assess the significance of a parti
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