Im the president and ceo of the museum of the American Revolution. Its wonderful to have so many familiar faces in the audience. And im pleased we are also Live Streaming program this evening and we will be on book tv and live on forever and ever. The founding members of the museum and members of the Revolution Society and people that are great supporters. We are pleased to partner and see them up on the screen. I know Tim Gillespie but all i can see is darkness. Tim and Joe Maclachlan so lets thank them. [applause] welcoming doctor Vincent Browne as is sometimes the case that not all that often in the exhibitions for the museum here so long before the shuttle was in the ground and the steel began rising in philadelphia it was exciting stories and a professor of africanAmerican History at Harvard University. The garden that won the prize and the award if there was an opportunity right now and the slave revolt in jamaica in 1761 and it is a narrative you can go online and you may be spe
You know, bookstores are placer people come to browse and shop, its a Community Gathering center. We put on normal times lots of author talks, we hold classes, we have a coffee house. Much of those activities had to stop since the spread of the virus. And with because of the warnings for social distance. The same time we been old karen some activity, largely through web orders. Also, at least until today, curbside deliveries. But even those curbside deliveries have been curtailed by the government. You have shut down your stores here in d. C. . The physical source . Guest yes it has come in phases. Last week we close the doors of all three locations to customer foot traffic. And we were still doing online processing online orders and shipping them as well as taking phone orders and doing curbside deliveries. But now we have had to, have an order that was issued by the d. C. Mayor last night see steven the curbside deliveries. So what about the author events . How many would you hold ty
Good evening. I would like to welcome you to tonights program. To our members we are so glad that you are here. And to you joining us for the first time and with the wide range of programs please turn off your cell phones during the program. Mary beth norton the author of five books and cowat it one call author several others and it has been published ten additions over 500,000 copies. As a Pulitzer Prize finalist and present of the Historical Association she is a professor america of American History at cornell and her new book it is available for purchase following the program please join me to welcome mary beth norton. [applause]. I want to show you the cover briefly because if you are a colonial historian on dash i dont know if anybody recognizes it but in the Massachusetts Historical Society the claims on the label but it contains t from the Boston Harbor the day after the party this is quite well known object in colonial america. Now i want to start with this verse from a poem th
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Not so. Time, and yourme men left columbia university, graduated from columbia, joined the st. Louis postdispatch, became an editorial writer, and along the way, he met Richard Nixon. That began a magnificent journey. Carpet rideargin from Richard Nixons defeat through years of what Richard Nixon described as the wilderness years, to the achievement of the highest office in the world, president of the United States. Pat buchanan was with him every step of the way and its reported in this great book just this is thet week, Pacific Coast launch of it, the greatest comeback, of how Richard Nixon built the new majorityand the silent , and how he won the presidency. This is a man who spent every day with him, strategizing, and hes aeating firsthand eyewitness to the magnificent brilliance of the 37th president. Pat buchanan. [applause] mr. Buchanan thank you very much, sandy. I was going to mention all the folks i served with over the years, even going back 4 and 5 decades, and id like to s