Youve got to frame this in the context of a bigger and you do that already. Which i tried to do in the book. There was a wonderful description of jim rhoades, he said he looked like a Football Player turned mortician. [laughter] that was just a a great description. Youve been a wonderful audience, i would be glad to sign books. Thank you very much for coming, i appreciate it. [applause] so the book signing is out in the rotunda, and there are refreshments out there as well. [inaudible conversations] this is booktv on cspan2, and we want to know whats on your Summer Reading list. Send us your choices. booktv is our twitter handle. You can also post it on our facebook page, facebook. Com booktv. Or you can send an email to booktv cspan. Org. Whats on your Summer Reading list . Booktv wants to know. [inaudible conversations] good evening and welcome to barnes noble. Tonight we will be hearing from gary byrne, and here to introduce him is his publicist, sarah falter. [applause] [laughter]
First fulllength study of its kind. Dr. Silverman received his undergraduate degree at the university of virginia and his graduate degree at Colorado State and the university of kentucky. He has received many distinguished teaching awards. Is currently working on a companion volume detailing president lincolns reputation in 19thcentury europe. To elected terms of his local school board. Lets welcome professor jason silverman. [applause] thank you so much. When he mentioned the school board, that is where i learned the real meaning of the civil war. Inave been interested Abraham Lincoln since the fourth grade. Night which wes were going to do silent man yes. Iwo jima,hardt, signing of the declaration of independence. All sorts of things. Sne of the silent then yet would be the Lincoln Douglas debates. My fourth grade teacher told me you cant be abraham lycan, you are not, enough. Lincoln, you are not tall enough. She took me i had to be Stephen Douglas. [laughter] swore that i would stu
His recent work lincoln and the immigrant is a volume in a Concise Lincoln Library series. It was released in september. Of the more than 16,500 volumes 16,500 and counting volumes published on Abraham Lincoln, this is the first fulllength study of its kind. Dr. Silverman received his undergraduate degree at the university of virginia and his graduate degree at Colorado State and the university of kentucky. He has received many distinguished teaching awards. He is currently working on a companion volume detailing president lincolns reputation in 19thcentury europe. He also served to elected terms of his local school board. Lets welcome professor jason silverman. [applause] professor silverman thank you so much. That last part about the eight years on the Rock Hill School board, forget about all my education, that is where i learned the real meaning of the civil war. [laughter] professor silverman i have been interested in Abraham Lincoln since the fourth grade. We had a parents night w
University for four years. Author or editor of 11 books, several of which nominated for National Book awards, his recent work lincoln and the immigrant is a volume in the series con size Lincoln Library series published by Southern Illinois University Press and was released in september. Of the 16,500 and counting volumes published on Abraham Lincoln, this is the first full length study of its kind. Dr. Silverman received his undergraduate degree at the university of virginia and his graduate degrees at Colorado State and the university of kentucky. He has received many distinguished teaching awards. Is currently working on a companion volume detailing president lincolns reputation in 19th century europe. He also served two elected terms on his local school board. So lets welcome professor jason silverman. [ applause ] thank you so much. That last part about the eight years on the Rockhill School board, forget about all my education. Thats when i learned the real meaning of civil war.
Supervision of democracy because majority rule is the essence of the american project. There are, however, two things wrong with this formulation. First, it is utterly unrealistic and simple minded to think that there is a majority support for or majority interest in or even majority awareness of even a tiny fraction of what modern governments do in dishing out advantages to economic factions. Does anyone really think that when the nashville City Government dispenses favors for the taxi and limo cartels, it is acting on a will of the majority of the citys residents . Can anyone actually believe that a majority of louisianans give a tinkers dam about who sells caskets or arranges flowers . We know because he said so clearly and often that lincoln took his political bearings from the declaration of independence. Which brings me back again to 1854 to the kansas nebraska act and to lincolns noble recoil from the idea of popular sovereignty in the territories regarding slavery. That recoil