Examines the origins of the party and the slaveholding south, arguing it was founded to advocate for the middle class against elite plantation owners. She also looks at the republican figures who defined the party like resident Abraham Lincoln Theodore Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan. The National History center of the American Historical Association at the Wilson Center cohosted this event. It is about an hour and a half. Host it is my real pleasure to introduce Heather Cox Richardson today, someone whose work i have been reading and admiring for some time now. She is a professor of history at boston college. And every time i think i have caught up with what she has written, she produces yet another book. So i have to keep reading but i do so with great pleasure. She has written five books on various aspects of American History. She is a 1992 graduate of Harvard Universitys program in the history of American Civilization and her first four books explored civil war the gilded age, and the
All, that he had to put his beloved house up for sale because he was bankrupt. The duke of wellington got number one london, the duke of moreberg got glenen palace and Winston Churchill got bankruptcy. A sign of the time. He had physical guts but he also had an acute awareness of who he was, the family he came fromment and i always remember some years ago going to blenham with a group of german parliamentarians. Rose the family home. Where he was born, and the german member of Parliament Sitting next to me had never been to blenham before. And as we turned in and went up the drive, he turned to me and said if adolf hitler had known that Winston Churchill was born here, i dont think he ever would have gone to war. Rose Winston Churchill for the hour next. Funding for charlie rose was provided by the following captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in france. We shall fight on the seas
[applause] to i would say half of the rating and a big chunk of the research i did while i had a fellowship for jefferson studies. I want to think andrew for that and my good friend for many acts of friendship does the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation chair at the university of virginia. I want to think mary Scott Fleming for keeping the trains running on time for this presentation and to Christopher Oliver assistance to a range of this. And managing the fellowship that i so have profitably and so spent here. Also might sister and her brother traveling here for connecticut also alan taylor one of the leaders of the of escape from the virginia plantation during the war of 1812. Since it is monticello lets begin with Thomas Jefferson and this is a that comes from a letter that he wrote in response to his former secretary. He wrote this letter August August 251814 which is a low point in the United States will recall the war of 1,812th. If you know, of the occupation and the partial b
Author of big, hot, cheap and right, and what america can learn from the strange genius of texas. [inaudible conversations] good morning. Im glen, the directer of the school of journalism at the university of texas at austin. I welcome you. Theres two superb authors here to morning to talk about the state of the union where we went wrong. We have 45 minutes, but could spend 45 hours on this. We better get rolling. Ill introduce the writers, ask questions, and i turn it over to you. I want to remind you when the session ends, two authors go to the signing tents, and theres a place to buy copies of the books and take them to the tent and have them signed. Follow us out when we leave. To the left, george packer, staff writer for the new yorker magazine, author of asass sins gate, named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times, written two novels and two Nonfiction Books, a play off broadway, and lives this brooklyn, new york, the new book called the unwinding inner hist
For today and cspan 2 booktv so make it all proud just to give a brief sense of how we do things in the next 15 minutes. Im going to introduce just an art. Make sure thereve book will have a discussion. I think the title of this panel is rebuilding or evolution informally in my mind. It is detroit and austin that the beginning and end of all things. That appeals more to my grammatic sense. So jeff kerr is the author of austin texas history. The first was austin, texas then and now. The next was republic of austin. On the most recent one of the reason we are here this morning is seat of empire the embattled birth of austin, texas, which is a history of the founding of boston and the battle in the republic of texas over by this capital would need. Jeff also raised a regular history and he is practicing pediatric urologist at the same time. If we have and the emergence sees. The author will take care of them. Mark binelli is the author of vincennes msi, contributing editor to relate to an