Pathbreaking for the institution on Alexander Hamilton, American Made modern america. We also want to recognize his receipt of the National Humanities medal to keep of course has written numerous books on revolutionary america including biographies on George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. His most recent book which was released just last week is founders son a life of Abraham Lincoln and it is already getting wonderful reviews. As always i would like to ask before invite Richard Brookhiser to the stage you make sure anything that makes noise like a cell phone is off. And now please join me in welcoming Richard Brookhiser to the stage. [applause] thank you for that i am being adjusted. They didnt need this stuff in the 19th century. They also did need to tell people to be quiet because they would be. Its always a pleasure and an honor to be at the historical society. I just want to thank a few people who are in the room. My publicist from basic, kathy nelson, basic bo
With all of the weight in the moment it was extensive studying of these people what i can get to know about them their voting record what i could get to know about how they saw the world and find connection points which would make it viable. Over 17 long days i managed to do that. I describe this in the book. It was a lonely time. I had great staff supporting me. Either i could or could not do it. There was not a whole lot that even the best of my ministerial colleagues. Do. So i recount bringing one of my good colleagues about something i wanted to check. It was like 1030 in the morning. I said, what are you doing. She said im roasting spices. She was taking her energy out by making the worlds most complex meals from scratch. I dont even no how you do that. Remembers what it was like. This sense of waiting waiting, waiting working, working, working. Once everyone said yes there was actually this growing sense of common endeavor which meant that people come together in difficult days.
It was important to hamilton, for example. Jefferson very adamantly disagreed with burkes reading of france. He was a friend of paines, a close friend during the revolutionary years. He thought that paines great pamphlet, common sense, was extreme lu important and ought to be extremely important and helped it get distributed. He helped him get a job as the secretary to the committee on Foreign Relations of the continental congress. And he was a kind of patron of Thomas Paines in some ways. When paine came back to america after france jefferson was president. He was wary of being associateed with paines views on religion so didnt hang out with him very much. But he helped him get established, helped him get a job, and the two knew each other very well. They were friends. Sue finish. Well, the most superb. Well, the most important rule of a bill of rights book fair is that it end on time, so im afraid were going to have to skip the remaining two questions. But, ladies and gentlemen, were
They comes under the faintest bit of scrutiny it just vanishes into nothing. Host thats amazing. You mentioned earlier that the whole chasing of paper and the whole zealousness of this Debt Collection business got to a larger height during the Great Recession after the financial crisis because people simply have less money to pay and they have more debt that accumulated. You talk about the term shadow economy which i find very interesting. In the term shadow banking usually its about hedge funds and the Cayman Islands tax shelter. The shadow economy is something different. Its something youd discuss with regard to the people on the bottom of this. I want to know if you can talk about whether you think those people how that will evolve Going Forward from where we are now. Guest the way that i stumbled into this when i was in georgia and looking at the lives of these debtors who were being sued in court over this debt i wanted to get a sense of what their lives were like. One of them tol
Please dont refer me to the state department on this. I am asking something about the whitehouse. It is a very basic one before you ask, i will do my best and not refer to the state department but i want you to remember it is the responsible of the state department and that agency to maintain their email system and ensure their compliance with the record act. Does the whitehouse think Hilary Clinton broke the law . I am going to do my best to answer. Secretary clintons team said at the request of the state department, they have reviewed her records i know what the team has said. But does the whitehouse believe Hilary Clinton broke the law our complied with the law . Does the president believe his former secretary of state broke the law or complied with the law. You will have to go verify this but if in fact what secretary clintons team said they were going to do and that can be verified by the state department that would be consistent with what the federal act requires. I was not in a