Good evening everyone and welcome to books and books with the virtual author series we are virtual booksellers and author events its great to see you all here tonight. Thank you to all of you out there and all the support that you have shown books of books and writers everywhere at this time we are facing. Hoping that you and your families are safe and healthy. Natalie with the Miami Book Fair that we do think them people are asking about the book fair weather virtual or physical or a combination its too early to tell and also the culture crusaders were thrilled to welcome our good friend to celebrate the publication of his new book the lincoln conspiracy we have been with brad not let any virus get in the way. Everyone knows the story that with the original conspiracy in 1861 and for that first inauguration to say this is a story that few people know with deep Political Division and what they do in times of strife and on the New York Times bestseller and the escape artist and thriller
Im very happy about that. So where are we going to go . Lets talk quickly about the lincoln conspiracy. We all know john wilkes booths store, how he ended abraham agains life and his presidency and this is the first secret plot to kill Abraham Lincoln is at the start of the presidency, before it begins. Why does it happen . When abraham i can is going to raise his right hand and become the sixteenth president of the United States the only way he can do that is take a train from his home in springfield and go to washington dc. He goes to washington dc and the only way to get from illinois to dc is on any train, you have to go through baltimore and baltimore was a slave state. The plot of the book is very simple. A secret society is planning to kill Abraham Lincoln, and ambition when he comes to baltimore in and his friend is presidency before it begins. That is the setup but what i think is interesting is the action, just where it begins. We open on this train and it is speeding through
Emerging revolutionary war symposium. We also thank cspan for coming out here to film this. Hopefully we will be an annual event. Keep your eyes out for next year symposium. To keep up with emerging revolutionary war, we are doing please check out our blog, emerging revolutionary war dot or. Follow us on facebook, on twitter, you can also check out our books, rob and phil wrote a book about i wrote a book about the battles we have a couple of books coming out early this year and keep up with us. Im really glad that we chose alexandria to have our inaugural symposium. Not only is it my hometown but it was also George Washingtons hometown. Alexandria you can go to new york, philadelphia, charleston, everywhere you go there are plaques and monuments and things put up. George washingtons slept here. He spent the day here. George washington spent a couple of hours here. This was his hometown. He spent more time in this town and most others. As they said, he got his suits here, walking stree
Government doing those things. Among those many protections can be found provisions of the bill of rights, including the Fourth Amendment to the United States constitution. A Fourth Amendment reminds us, its our right, our fundamental inalienable rights to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures and any warrants have to be backed by probable cause and any probable causebased warrant has to include with particul particularity, a description of the places and persons to be searched and to be seized. This is a tradition that reaches not just back a couple of centuries, it reaches back much farther than that. It has its origins not only in our own country, but in our mother country, in the united kingdom. By the time john wilks was serving in parliament in the 1760s, there had been a long established tradition and understanding in fact, a series of laws ena enacted to make sure that warrants were not abused and to make sure that the rights of english subjects would not be infringed
Today. Thank you to Historic Alexandria for hosting and for the happy hour after this. We are going to try to keep it as close to 4 00 as possible. We can all get our beer we are looking forward to afterwards. This is the first inaugural, emerging revolutionary war symposium. We thank cspan for coming to film this. Hopefully, we will be an annual event. Keep your eyes out for next years symposium. To keep up with emerging revolutionary war and everything we are doing, check out our block, emergingrevolutionar emergingrevolutionarywar. Org. Find out everything we are up to. Check out our books. Rob and phil wrote a book about battles at lym s at lexington a concord. We have a couple books coming up early next year about valley forge. Keep up with us. This really im glad that we chose alexandria to have our inaugural symposium. Not only is it my hometown, but it was also George Washingtons hometown. Alexandria you can go to cities, new york, philadelphia, charlton, everywhere you go ther