Morning. It is a little cooler out here, i noticed we had that warm, warm day thursday, all of a sudden, two days later, here we are Rosemary Orozco joining us now with how this weekend is shaping up. Good morning, rosemary. Happy saturday, may i say, happy first day of summer, the summer solstice arrives to 43 this afternoon, maybe i shall say, enjoy the final moments of spring, a look outside this morning, we have a partly sunny, partly cloudy sky, a bit of a breeze, for a dramatic drop in temperatures yesterday, for your weekend, we are going to be right about where we should be for this time of year, we can up with temperatures right around 50 degrees for cooler spots, almost 60 degrees for the inland, getting into the afternoon, 60s at the coast, 90s inland, a repeat expected for your fathers day sunday, better details on what is going on here today, and the extended forecast in just a little bit. California now has the second highest number of coronavirus cases in the country, th
Thank you for the great introduction. Welcome, everyone to this great book fair now in its 30th year. [applause] doris goodwin, its so wonderful to have you here. Welcome to miami. This is our premier cultural event. Great to have you her. If books about president. It was started by Theodore Roosevelt, known as teddy. How did he start the progressive era . What propelled him to act . What were his successes that are still with us today . We did call him teddy even though he didnt like the name teddy. I think he lost that to history. [laughter] the aspects of the Industrial Age has not been dealt with since the civil war. There was no real workmen compensation. Huge monopolies eating up small businesses. The gap between the rich and the poor had grown wider. Sounds familiar to the situation today. Even though he was a conservative when he started in a certain sense and a republican when he started, he realized the Publican Party would not be able to continue as a major force and majorit
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Im a board member of the Abraham Lincoln institute and a former executive director of the commission. Thank you for joining us today. Unlike that of winston churchill, abe lincolns humor tended toward selfdepravation. The spectators shouted that lincoln was being twofaced. Twofaced cried lincoln. If i had two faces, do you think i would wear this one . [ laughter ] lincolns humor was an essential component of his personality and political persona. Richard carwardine will explore with us whether his humor might also occasionally have been a handicap. Richard carwardine was educated at corpis kristy. He taught history before being appointed professor at Oxford University and a fellow of st. Catharines college. He was elected president of the college in 2010 and served in that post until 2016. He is the author of one of the finest modern biographies of the 16th president , lincoln a life of purpose and power which was awarded the lincoln prize in 2007 a
Sense of history, thank you for joining us today. It is my pleasure to introduce our keynote speaker, historian joanne freeman. Doctor freeman is a professor of history at yale university. She specializes in Early National american politics and culture. She is the author of several influential and awardwinning books and i will mention two of them. Affairs of honor from 2001 and most recently, feel the blood congressional violence in antebellum america, which i found particularly helpful for my own work. It seems like a reverse echo of the current and contemporary political scene in the United States. I will leave it at that. Dr. Freeman is known for her understanding of hamilton, which she rediscovered, i would say, before broadway did a couple of years ago. I asked doctor freeman about her relationship with history and she was kind enough to respond to my request for the information. It really reads like a love story. She fell in love with history beginning in 1776. I am sorry. She is
Weschler. We will give her the word. But Lawrence Weschler as often his books have always had Something Interesting going on. I say this, he sort of in the singular way writes about, has written about unique people or sometimes theres some extra situations is welcome often at the heart of his books are these unique and unusual and distinct people. And this is a time with often it feels like a lot of the force of our work to try to make assaulting exactly alike and something conformed and conventional. Hes done this, the last time he was here in seattle was just a couple of years ago with a man most of what well known in the world of film, walter murch who but they kept in touch and for all this work is done as a film editor, one of the foremost, i mean, oscars and everything, is also an astrophysicist by heart. With sort of rogue theories in the book calls ways passing in the night was a dialogue about what he was doing. Hes done this in various ways and various times. Tonight he is he