Lock for these look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for many of the authors in the near future on booktv on cspan2. And so now im very please today introduce tonights author presenting his acclaimed new book, the book that changed america. Randall fuller works at the university of tulsa as well as the author of from battlefields rising. His work has appeared in the new york times, the wall street journal and other publications. Professor fuller is a winner of phi beta kappas award for best literary criticism. The book that changed america how darwins theory of evolution ignited a nation, explores how five luminaries gained new perspectives on the origin of the species in the leadup to the civil war. Thank you very much for the nice introduction. Thanks for coming out on what to oklahoma feels like a chilly night. I realize it is not really that cold. I am really glad to have been invited by the harvard bookstore. I have spent many hours over my professional li
This is not an attempt to rewrite history, its not an attempt to fashion a legacy, it is an attempt to be a part of the historical narrative. Also Supreme Court justices. Every single justice on the court has a passion and a love for the constitution and our country thats equal to mine. Then you know that if you accept that as an operating truth, which it is, you understand that you can disagree. And nobel prize winners. That, for me, whats interesting is negotiation of a moral position. Do no harm. Love somebody. And respect yourself and do some work you respect. All of that is reduced, simplified notions. The philosophers have spent their lifetime trying to imagine what it is like to live a moral life, what morality is, what existence is, what responsibility is. We visited book fairs and festivals around the country. And booktv is live at the annual l. A. Times festival of book withs on the campus of ucla in los angeles. Theres our signature programming, in depth each month and if yo