All weekend long on booktv, and for a complete schedule visit booktv. Org. Author jon meacham recount it is career of americas third president d recounts the career of americas third president , Thomas Jefferson. He reports that despite his strong beliefs and opposition to confrontation, president jefferson was able so successfully lead the country in a highly partisan political environment. This is just under an hour. [applause] its all downhill from there. [laughter] my lawyer will take any complaints later. Thank you so much, and thank you to what, for what you all do here. I am a, i shopped here as a young Washington Monthly editor. Shopped is too strong. We didnt have any money. As you all may remember, Washington Monthly editors were paid 10,000 a year which, as kate boo who won the National Book award last night adding to her amazing list of of accomplishments kate used to say she knew she had actually graduated from the monthly when she could buy entrees as well as appetizers i
Environment. This is just under an hour. It is all downhill from there. My lawyer will take any complaints later. Thank you so much and thank you for what you all do here. I have shopped here as a young Washington Monthly editor, shopped is too strong. We didnt have any money but you all may remember Washington Monthly editors were paid 10,000 a year which kate whoohoo won the National Book award last night and adding to her amazing list of accomplishments, she used to say she actually graduated from the monthly when she could buy on tra appetizers in restaurants. I am a southerner, i am from tennessee, and i think understanding jefferson in his regional context and National Context and political context is important. He was a master of politics, whether it was ideologically driven or geographically driven. There is something president about a ferociously divided atmosphere, big issues at stake, and a president whose tall, cool, sir regrow, pretty good at politics but doesnt like to ad
Im david gregory. This is press pass, your all extra pass. Looking at American Leadership during another turbulent political time. Im joined by john meechah out with a new book and executive editor at random house and of course a frequent guest here and is on meet the press. Congratulations on the book. So what i highlighted initially just from the prologue and i will get through all of this even if im a slow reader, but this is what stood out to me about jefferson. Broadly put, philosophers think politicians maneuver. Jeffersons genius was that he was both and he could do both often simultaneously such as the art of power. Why did you want to look at Thomas Jefferson through the prism of how to wield power . Because i think he sent us in the direction of his ideas and his intellectual achievements, his art, his architecture, with his tombstone. One of the great trivia questions in American History is what are the three things, author of the declaration of independence, founder of the
Coming to it another way of looking at is that he wise least it becoming a prisoner of war and so the british to the mint when the propaganda of the victory in the author of the declaration of independence and the governor of virginia, and carting him off in handcuffs. If anybody could have charmed their captor it would have been jefferson. He might have ended up in the cabinet over there but it was he was an awfully provisional and contingent moment. He was able to get the votes and cut the deal in part because of graduated from the monthly his lifelong political the when she could buy entrees and appetizers and restaurants so education. He began as a young man in she spent money here but i will try to fix that. Williamsburg and listened to Patrick Henry hu said he spoke i am enormously grateful. As homer wrote partly because he i am a southerner from tennessee couldnt do it and its always a good sign of a politician and a leader when they recognize qualities in others that they do an