Mississippi author, shelby foote. Any understand offering this nation has to be based on an noning of the civil war. The civil war deoffendded us as what we are and it opened us to what we game, good and bad. Its necessary if youre going to understand the american character of the 20th century to learn about this enormous catastrophe of the 19th 19th century. The crossroads of our being and a hell of a crossroads. Id like to crow introduce my kole legs. On the far right is timothy smith. Mike mallard, justin solonick, and tom parson and ill pitch it to tim. Its beautiful to be here with you today. I think what well do first is tell you a little bit about ourselves and introduce ourselves. My name is tim smith. I live in tennessee. I teach at the university of tennessee at martin. And mississippian at heart, though. A native mississippian, grew up in carrollton and went to ol mississippi misstate, got degrees from both somehow. Egg bowl day im a winner either way. My publications in ter
All right, thank you very much. [applause] please fill out the evaluation for on your chairs editing theres a couple books back or if someone is interested in buying a book. Probably you will sign the book. Interested in American History . Watch American History television on cspan3 at the weekend 48 hours the people and events that help document the american story. Visit cspan. Org history for more information. Kenneth walsh was achieved correspondent for u. S. News world report. He discusses his book celebrity in chief. As long as its okay for you all. Were going to give it about another minute or two and then i will make the introduction. Okay. Hopefully well get a few more people coming in, but my name is Ingrid Bowers another Branch Manager at the Woodrow Wilson wn library. Want to thank you all for coming. Its kind of a dreary, gloomy night thomas of thank you for braving the weather. Tonight if it is part of the 17th annual all for the books literary festival. The festival runs
Couple years ago and i am trying to get through it. Theres a Great Organization named the Tragedy Assistance Program which is designed to help families connect with each other and help each other through difficult time. There is sort of a network that tries to help each other. There is also a terrific Arlington Ladies which sounds like a garden club or something. This is of formidaarlington lad like a garden club or something. This is of formidable group, every service, Arlington Ladies which started because an air force generals wife was going to Arlington Justice you were describing, and sought a widow all alone, gray with an airman who had just been buried. The widow was fathere and the chaplain was there and she decided, gladys, cant remember her last name, her husband was chief of staff, thank you. She decided that would never happen again. She started the air force Arlington Ladies so every service there would be a civilian representative of the secretary of the air force who wou
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People were familiar with his voice. Chief notion. Host did people care what Herbert Hoover and Alvin Coolidge was doing . Guest they did not. That is how i defined celebrity in chief. The ability to bring americans in the world of the president and be interested in the president as a person. Then using your celebrity to get interest in your agenda and policies. Herbert hoover tried a number of ways to connect with people, but the depression got so bad and people thought he was so out of touch that he could not get in touch. He had something called hoover ball where he was there a medicine ball around, thinking it would show him as a vigorous regular guy on the south lawn. It never caught on with the country. A lot of americans run off throwing a medicine ball around like the president was. He just did not get it as far as connecting with Popular Culture. Franklin roosevelt did. Host chapter two, Theodore Roosevelt the strenuous life. Six president stand out as the biggest stars ever t