In this environment, you could tell me a lot about abigail that i still dont know. But why, as caroline also said, why is it abigail is the one name we all know . It really is because of her man, because she married john adams. Being here today, i feel sort of like ive come home because ive come to john and abigails home and also home that all Three Sisters spent a lot of time in. The other two sisters that i think i know less about, i argue in my book, even though they did president s, they are equally important in the important and remarkable women. First there is the oldest sister, mary cranch. She was the uncrowned queen of the family because in the puritan family, hierarchy that is very important and she was born first, so she was the first born. She was very important. Especially after her brother was disinherited by their father, she was really the one who inherited the first sons role because there was no brother. When she grew up, she proved herself to be a wonderful administr
Hell is breaking loose in europe. So there were wonderful relationships among a lot of these people. I have to say i was late in appreciating the momentous contributions of George Washington. There were a lot of authors. But George Washington was we think of what he did in conducting the war. He was smart enough to of course the big mistake going directly against the british. He learned that when he was in the french and indian war. They always marched in formation and took orders from the officers but they had no idea what to do. They were not capable of the circumstances so he was with the british. Washington adopted the deception in all kind of things for example washington encouraged the development of the teams. A very small numbers of people and they were hunters. When they would go against the british, the officers would be sitting on horses way in back of the battlefield and they didnt go well and expose themselves with the sharpshooters could take off a british officer from 30
And i go and and i just sit quietly in a think about little Dale Carnegie in the big cosmos and the sort of makes everything come into perspective. So the tale of carnegie is a little complicated. There is a renewed religiosity on the one hand, but on the other hand its very much in the vein of therapeutic selffulfillment brothers and a kind of more traditional protestantism. That is more or less where he ended. He was very Close Friends i should add that i can clinch the case of Norman Vincent field. He once described to him had he put it, they were working the same street. They were just working different sides of the street. [applause] thank you very much. Thank you very much, professor watson. The book is herself from barnes noble in the hall. Thank you very much. A tv interview Kevin Freeman at the Political Action conference about his book game plan. The book, mr. Friedman discusses economic and financial terrorism and suggests ways for americans to protect themselves. Kevin free
Ebook . Host liberty has advanced on separate tracks. Property rights develop with one group of people over long period of time. Those are completely different people than were involved in the movement to eradicate slavery. Again, very different people than those who were involved in religious freedom. At any particular time, some tracks are very well advanced and others are nothing much is happening. So its not just one interconnected thing. Its a lot of separate battles. Somebody who plays an Important Role in just one tracks such as Frederick Douglass in the Abolitionist Movement or William Wilberforce who was early in the pioneering movement in england to abolish slavery. There are very few i encounter who made contributions in more than one track. Lafayette, for example, played a crucial role and helping them the American Revolution by cornering morgan cornwallis at yorktown. And then he went back to france later and he encouraged george washington. They were very close, like fath