And americans family. She is professor of law of the new York Law School and professor of history at rutgers university. She is the author of Thomas Jefferson sally henning, which remains most influential study of the subject. She has written numerous articles on jefferson and edited forthcoming reader on jefferson and rates which will be published by Princeton University press. She also had had time to complete a short biography of Andrew Johnson which will be published in the fall of 2009. Please join me in welcoming a net cord in reeves. [applause] thank you, very much for that introduction i love how he says that. [laughter] say it again. Say it again. It is great to be here among some many people that i know. Such a familiar place to me i came back to monticello and many times and it is always good to be here ive never been here when is raining. So, this is an interesting thing for me. A day that began at 4 00 a. M. This morning trying to get there quickly and taking off at 1 00 s
Hello, and good afternoon my name is andrew i am a director of the International Center for jefferson studies. It is my pleasure to introduce our speaker who is here on the launch of perm much anticipated steady the hemming of monticello and americans family. She is professor of law of the new York Law School and professor of history at rutgers university. She is the author of Thomas Jefferson sally henning, which remains most influential study of the subject. She has written numerous articles on jefferson and edited forthcoming reader on jefferson and rates which will be published by Princeton University press. She also had had time to complete a short biography of Andrew Johnson which will be published in the fall of 2009. Please join me in welcoming a net cord in reeves. [applause] thank you, very much for that introduction i love how he says that. [laughter] say it again. Say it again. It is great to be here among some many people that i know. Such a familiar place to me i came bac
And now for the main event we are so thrilled to have derek baxter here with us today. Hes the author of in pursuit of jefferson, traveling three years with the most perplexing founding father. Joining us today from fairfax, virginia, where he lives with his wife and children. And in his words, they live quite a peaceful life there before deciding to follow Thomas Jeffersons travel advice across europe. So hes going to tell you a little bore bit more about the book and we are so thrilled to have him here. Derek baxter, everybody. Great well, thank you. Thank you and cspan. Thank you everybody for watching. So yes, this book is about, its about me following jeffersons travels across europe. And really, it was a chance to learn about a different side of jefferson that we dont often hear about. We all know about the younger jefferson who wrote the declaration of independence at the age of 33. And we probably know something about jefferson as an older man when he was president. But this gi
Europe with the most perplexing founding father. Joining us today from fairfax, virginia, where he lives with his wife and children. And in his words, they live quite a peaceful life there before deciding to follow Thomas Jeffersons travel advice across europe. So hes going to tell you a little bit more about the book and resource wealth to having me here. Derek baxter, everybody. Great well, thank you. Thank you and cspan. Thank you everybody for watching. So yes, this book is about, its about me following jeffersons travels across europe. And israeli, it was a chance to learn about a different side of jefferson that we dont often hear about. We all know about the younger jefferson who wrote the declaration of independence at the age of 33. And we probably know something about jefferson as an older man when he was president. But this give me a chance to explore this different side of jefferson. It was when he was a middle aged, in the 1780s. So jefferson was just going into his 40s an
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