The fantastic conversation were all going have with our finalists tonight and. I know were here to hear them talk. Im going to be as brief as possible and, introducing them so we can turn it over to them. And many of them dont really need. A introduction. We have with us stacy shift who written countless biographies. Cleopatra, benjamin franklin, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and a George Washington book prize winner. And i know im probably skipping a couple of biographies in there as well. Fred kaplan, who has also written an enormous number of biographies, i couldnt believe it. I mean ive familiar with several of them, and i kept looking for your list. And i couldnt believe i mean, mark twain, charles dickens, henry james, abraham lincoln, John Quincy Adams, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. I mean, missing a lot of people, too, arent i. Well. I have to confess. Im not missing them anymore. For right. And he is. And here tonight to talk about Thomas Jefferson, whos he has recently writte
The fantastic conversation were all going have with our finalists tonight and. I know were here to hear them talk. Im going to be as brief as possible and, introducing them so we can turn it over to them. And many of them dont really need. A introduction. We have with us stacy shift who written countless biographies. Cleopatra, benjamin franklin, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and a George Washington book prize winner. And i know im probably skipping a couple of biographies in there as well. Fred kaplan, who has also written an enormous number of biographies, i couldnt believe it. I mean ive familiar with several of them, and i kept looking for your list. And i couldnt believe i mean, mark twain, charles dickens, henry james, abraham lincoln, John Quincy Adams, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. I mean, missing a lot of people, too, arent i. Well. I have to confess. Im not missing them anymore. For right. And he is. And here tonight to talk about Thomas Jefferson, whos he has recently writte
And many of them dont really need. A introduction. We have with us stacy shift who written countless biographies. Cleopatra, benjamin franklin, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and a George Washington book prize winner. And i know im probably skipping a couple of biographies in there as well. Fred kaplan, who has also written an enormous number of biographies, i couldnt believe it. I mean ive familiar with several of them, and i kept looking for your list. And i couldnt believe i mean, mark twain, charles dickens, henry james, abraham lincoln, John Quincy Adams, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. I mean, missing a lot of people, too, arent i. Well. I have to confess. Im not missing them anymore. For right. And he is. And here tonight to talk about Thomas Jefferson, whos he has recently written and is a finalist. Mary sarah builder, whos a professor of law, boston college, and one of the leading thinkers on the constitution, who wrote a bancroft prizewinning book on James Madison in the constit
And many of them dont really need. A introduction. We have with us stacy shift who written countless biographies. Cleopatra, benjamin franklin, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and a George Washington book prize winner. And i know im probably skipping a couple of biographies in there as well. Fred kaplan, who has also written an enormous number of biographies, i couldnt believe it. I mean ive familiar with several of them, and i kept looking for your list. And i couldnt believe i mean, mark twain, charles dickens, henry james, abraham lincoln, John Quincy Adams, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. I mean, missing a lot of people, too, arent i. Well. I have to confess. Im not missing them anymore. For right. And he is. And here tonight to talk about Thomas Jefferson, whos he has recently written and is a finalist. Mary sarah builder, whos a professor of law, boston college, and one of the leading thinkers on the constitution, who wrote a bancroft prizewinning book on James Madison in the constit
The founders believed education was crucial to democracy. Here, a one-room schoolhouse in Breathitt County, Ky. Photograph by Marion Post Wolcott/Library of Congress The majority of Americans today …