Prizewinning ron churn discusses his biography of ron sure nownt his biography of Ulysses S Grant. U. S. Grant refused to trumpet his accomplishments in print. When did you decide to start that way in your book . Mr. Chernow when i started working on the book i read it to i ran into a friend who said to me, how can you write a great biography of someone who wrote a great autobiography . That stopped me in my tracks and i thought about that comment for many days. Then i realized that it actually helped to define the direction of my book because i realized that what my job was to do as a biographer was to zero in on the silences and the evasions. It is not really a biography. It is not really an autobiography. He covers the mexican war and the civil war. I ended up zeroing in on those things that grant did not want to talk about, particularly his lifelong struggle with alcoholism and his repeated his repeated business failures. Host i want to start out concentrating on the end of his lif
Celebrity, grant refused to trumpet his accomplish. S in print. When did you decide to start that way in your book . When i started the book i ran into a friend who said to me, how can you write a great biography of someone who wrote a great autobiography and that stopped me dead in my tracks. I thought about that comment for many days. Then i realized that it actually helped to define the direction of my book because i realized that what my job was to do as a biographer was to zero in on the silences and the evasions in grants memoirs. I should say grants book, its not really an autobiography. Its a military memoir. Covers the mexican war. He covers the civil war. Theres not a word, for instance, about that small thing, his twoterm presidency and the remaining events in his life. But i ended up again zeroing in on those things that grant did not want to talk about, particularly his lifelong struggle with alcoholism and his repeated business failures. I want to start out concentrating
Jeff flannery thank you. I am the head of the reader and Services Section and i would like to welcome you to the library of congress. The Manuscript Division is custodian to approximately 63 million primary source documents. Among our other personal papers of 23 u. S. President and numerous other wellknown americans, including the poet walt whitman, aeronautic pioneers orval and Wilbur Wright , and a civil rights icon rosa parks. 170 years after his death Andrew Jackson still dominates the period between the founders generation and the onslaught of the slavery crisis. During the age of jackson, one could mark the expansion of democracy, trace the development of modern political parties, and witness a wave of political partisanship that would not look unfamiliar to modern art and since modern audiences. One of it is here that the collections and personal papers of the nations leading figures shed light on their hopes and ambitions. The division not only holds the most significant collec
Prof. Nesbit so this is intro to historic preservation. University of georgia, the brandnew digital lab. I am scott nesbit. So, we are here today trying to think a little bit about the Cultural Heritage of the american south, especially after and during the american civil war. It has been in the news quite a bit lately. And so i think its a topic that folks who are interested in Historical Preservation like yourselves have got to figure out. We have a really fun opportunity to make sense of all of this. To do that i figure we should go and think a little bit about not just where the monuments came from, but the war out of which they came. You know, at the beginning of the american civil war, United States soldiers seemed to take a great deal of care to leave private property, all kinds of property alone. They really strictly held to attacking military targets only and this seemed to be of great importance to political leaders, because they thought the war would be short and they needed
Issue with the spectrum and make it more usable in that kind of environment. Watch the communicators tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan2. Youre looking at a time lapse video recorded by the library of congress showing the process of constructing the exhibition jacob riis, revealing how the other half lives. Next, on American History tvs american artifacts, we visit the exhibit in the librarys Thomas Jefferson building to learn about the life of the danish born journalist and photographer. This program is just under an hour. Im cheryl regan, exhibit director and office of the library of congress. Im barbara bair, the curator of this exhibit and im a historian in the Manuscript Division of the library of congress. This exhibition jacob riis revealing how the other half lives is a copresentation with a museum of the city of new york. It is the first time that the collections of the library of congress, the jacob riis papers have been married with the photographs that are stellar collection