i turned to him for wisdom which often comes over me and i m going to let him begin by explaining. we want them to talk as much as possible. and so, if you can set up the premise of the book and then i have a few questions the last few if the silence falls. well, from what i can tell so far, one of the things the people what their current leaders, journalists want to know why i decided to write this book a seeing eye and a novelist and not a science writer. the answer to that question is curious for probably everybody else. [phone sounds] [laughter] i just had to turn off, sorry. it s happened more than once in my riding lifetime. i was driving in a car listening to npr and i just happened to hear i think it was on the fresh air for those of you who know my book you know i have a certain attitude to fresh air they were interviewing the jonah whose book had just come out imagine how creativity works. as i was driving along i was doing a explaining how they created
strife and a lot of labor risk. and as the country went into the 1920 election, the country made a real swing to the right and repudiated the progressivism of wilson and the like did a very conservative republican ticket, which was composed of harding, nominated for president and calvin coolidge for vice president. frederick lewis allen only yesterday has characterized the late days, said the nation was spiritually tired at the end of world war i. worried by the excitement of the war and the nervous tension of the big red scare, they hope for quiet and healing. they were sick of wilson in a stock of america s duty to they hoped for chance to pursue their private affairs without government interference, and the result was a g.o.p. landslide. during this campaign, calvin coolidge made this statement; he said in a free republic, a great government is the product of a great people. they will look to themselves rather than to the government for success. this became a theme of that
are as wide apart as points on the compass. they were very different boys. john wilkes was physically strong. he was the image of his father. he was charismatic, aggressive, bold. but he was not a scholar. he had a difficult time reading. he had a slow memory and no head for languages. edwin, those commie and admittedly strange looking, physically weak, he would cry when always been baltimore gave him a hard time and his brother had to fight his battles for him. nonetheless, edwin had an intuitive grasp of shakespeare s words even from a young age. they even said at the age of four he was a child who inherited not his father s luck, but his father s intellect. and so for junius, edwin went to chili s to be a successor on the american stage. and it was bad choice that sowed the perceived of conflicts between and when and john wilkes. for junius took edwin out of school at age 12, making him his assistant and together this year traveled every year from albany to new orleans, sa
what i would label a western education. western education was individualism and responsibility, a sense of adventure, not just at venture in going all over the world but that venture in for instance into the unknown science of reason. that s what i associate with the west. my teachers educated me in loyalty for the klan, tradition, and loyalty to god and the hereafter and the profit mohammed and following his example. .. in john wilkes assassination of president abraham lincoln at port theatre on april 14, 1865. nora titone presents her book at the abe lincoln museum in springfield, illinois.ram is the program is one hour. good evening. in ford s theatre one t april for teen, 1865, is stamped and national memory. there was1 the gunshot, the act or, jumping from balcony tom aly stage a lincoln fatally hit, slumped in a chair, rage at the union victory and hatred for lincoln drove john wilkes booth to pull the trigger. the story has been told many times. but there is more to
good evening. the scene and forge theatre on april 14, 1865 is stamped in actual memory. there was a gunshot. the actor jumping from balcony to stage, flashing the knife before the footlights. lincoln fatally hit, slumped in a chair, rage at the union victory and hatred for lincoln drove john wilkes booth to pull the trigger. the story has been told many times. but there is more to the story of john wilkes booth and the assassination of lincoln than the familiar facts we all know. it is a story largely unexplored , a story had been in private letters, diaries, memoirs and manuscripts. and it is the story of a remarkable and dysfunctional teatro family, the booths. but above all, it is the story of john wilkes and the man who was his rival and competitor, his older brother, edwin. edwin booth s name is forgotten now, buried by his brothers and from his steed. but a century ago, she was the actor kane, the greatest most influential start of the american stage. four years olde