Every saturday, we document americas story and book tv brings you the latest nonfiction books and authors. Funding comes from these Television Companies and more. Hi, everybody. Afternoon. Im john obrien from the department of english and im happy to kick things off. Supporting ycspan 2 as a publ service. Hi, everybody. Good afternoon. Im john obrien from the department of english and im happy to kick things off todays lecture is part of a lecture series known as the Peter Rushton seminars, a series going back to 915 1950. Today we are happy to welcome fred kaplan to the rotunda to speak on his designer Thomas Jefferson. Professor of english at Queens College and Graduate Center of the City University of new york. He has become best known as one of the most distinguished biographers of our era. Covers thomas carlyle, mark twain, henry james, charles dickens, john quincy adams, Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson. He offers a biography of Thomas Jefferson by giving them english profess
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