Unlike that of winston churchill, abraham lincolns humor tended toward selfdeprecation. During one of the debates in illinois, the spectator shouted that lincoln was being twofaced. Twofaced, cried lincoln, if i had two faces, do you think i would wear this one . [laughter] his humor was an essential component of his persona. Richard carwardine will explore with us whether his humor might also occasionally have been a handicap. Richard carwardine was educated at Corpus Christi and queens colleges oxford and at the university of california at berkeley. For three decades he taught history at the university of sheffield before being appointed roads professor of American History and institution at Oxford University and a fellow of Saint Catherines college. He was elected president of Corpus Christi college ine au 20 and served in that post until 2016. He is the author of one of the finest modern biographies of the 16th president , lincoln, a life of purpose and power, and lincolns sense of
Its where well be signing books. We were lucky enough, to have the journalist and author and cohost of the podcast. And he will be doing a brief q a with our author before eric will do a reading and then well open it up for questions. So about our author he was the director and researcher at the National Intelligence of science and path algae for the u. S. Intelligence community. Before joining nfa he is executive Vice President of disney imaginary. A phd neuroscientist. In an inventor with over seven patents and pending patents. His book includes brain, safari and tonights book is all substation. If everyone could give a round of apostle commack. Hi. Again thank you for coming. Thank you for showing up, we want to think diane for organizing this event along with kim peart who is here in spirit if not a person into the bookstore in los angeles. Ericas had an unbelievable literally and metaphorically career and for we get into this true story of spy craft which is an amazing book which
I said for 28 years for the Library Congress and retired a couple years ago. He told me that the National Book festival was something he needed help with and had been started in 2001 as an idea that came from laura bush, laura bush asked Jim Billington around the time of the inauguration in 2001 whether not there was a National Book festival comparable to the one she started in the texas, the texas book festival he said there is not yet but there will be. He came up with the idea of how to put together National Book festival, the idea was to do it in the mall in a series of tents that were set up for the first year end then it turned out getting sponsorships were more difficult than they thought it would be. So he asked me if i get involved and i told him i would do so and i began to be a sponsor and a cochair of the event, ive done that for ten years or so. It is very important to me that the festival goes well and i enjoyed a great deal is a great gift for the country to have a natio
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