In the courtroom, they are fighting to save their careers and lives. The last image i wanted to bring to your attention is a. There was a book fair in chicago 10 years ago. Those are wonderful things to go to. For historical research, you can get some great finds. There was, wrapped up in plastic, front page copy of the sinking, july 25. There was a wonderful cartoon that to me, after all the years of research, brings it in chilling fashion to life. The cartoonists blaming greed for the shipwreck. This is a pretty good representation. This has actually shipped the tipped the ship the wrong way. But, the point is well made. That brings to a close the image portion of the presentation. I would be happy to take some questions. We have some books. Some questions . I was in chicago for a few days and took an agricultural tour of the smell river. It is in the middle of chicago. Smale river. It is in the middle of chicago. I get on my boat in south michigan. You were very close. You were at m
Annette dunlap she changed it in terms of putting education in the forefront and getting involved with education and taking care of children. She was really concerned about how children were cared for, and that was something she definitely emphasized. Susan swain and, taylor where would you put her in the pantheon of first ladies weve been learning about this year . Taylor stoermer shes the first celebrity first lady, the First National celebrity first lady. And i think when were talking about the development of our understanding of the institution of the first lady, then she is the first one in which we get to start thinking about what really are the uses of that celebrity in good ways and bad ways, because there are concerns that have developed about the first family being owned by the American Public, but also how that can actually be a positive tool of the broader presidency if only Grover Cleveland would have been able to see that. Susan swain and the story in that regard will con
Become the premiere Research Institution for studying the entire roosevelt era. The librarys Research Room is consistently one of the busiest of all the president ial libraries and this years group of authors reflects reflects ree variety oresearch down here. If you love the roosevelt reading festival and want to support this and other programs that we do here, i encourage you to become a Roosevelt Library member. You can join today at the membership table in the hall, or online at fdr library. Org and if you havent already, please do go see our new special temporary museum exhibition, images of interment, the incarceration of japaneseamericanss during world war 2. At the top of each hour a session begins with a 30minute author talk followed by a tenminute question and answer period. The author then moves to the lobby to sign books and talk with you more if you have more questions. So, during the question and answer period today, this session will be taped for cspan so wed appreciate i
Briefing from the u. S. Chamber of congress. This week on q a, author and former congressional staffer anthony clark. He discusses his book, the last how president s a run for prosperity and in trying their legacy. Anthony clark, i want you to see some video before we talk about your book from october 1996. You know, this is my last campaign and maybe i will run for school board sunday. [laughter] brian your book is called the last campaign. He said that moment got you the title. Why . Anthony i saw that moment in a Political Science budget class in 2003 and decided to write my thesis for that semester on that idea that a president ial library is the president last campaign, not the final electoral contest. And when i finished that paper, said this is a book, you should consider making this into a book. A week later, i got into an rv i had an troubled to all the essential libraries in six weeks, the once i had not been to yet. I came back convinced that maybe there was more than a book
You know, this is my last campaign and maybe i will run for school board sunday. [laughter] brian your book is called the last campaign. You say in the book that moment got you the title. Why . Anthony i saw that moment in a Political Science budget class in 2003 and decided to write my thesis for that semester on that idea that a president ial library is the president last campaign, not the final electoral contest. And when i finished that paper, my professor said this is a book, you should consider making this into a book. A week later, i got into an rv i had an troubled to all the essential libraries in six weeks, the once i had not been to yet. I came back convinced that maybe there was more than a book in it. For me, going to the president ial libraries was only the beginning of the journey. Because seeing the libraries as a tourist was different from researching in the records and going to the National Archives and seeing how the libraries developed. It was because of what i foun