Election and his defeat in 1980 by mr. Reagan. Mr. Balmer spoke at the Jimmy Carter Museum in atlanta back in 2014. Welcome. Its a pleasure for me tonight to introduce randall balmer, professor of arts and sciences at dartmouth college. I have followed his career for a long time. His under graduate work was done at a school where my father was a dean and my brother joe attended that school at the same time. And randy has turned into one of our great, modern american historians. One of the things that makes him great is he really minds the resources of president ial libraries. He really mines the resources of president ial libraries. He has come to the carter library, gone through and found very interesting documents that other people had not seen before. And he has done that at other president ial libraries. Combined with that, he has also mined the resources of the archives on various evangelical organizations that have become involved in politics. And on top of his research skills, h
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Sponsorship and support for the conservative book of the year award. Thank you chris. Thank you. We thank you all coming to bed. Theres not a lot of in this book i must love you because ive been up to since two in the morning. Ill be getting up at two tomorrow morning. So those of you so how many, if any, you had a chance to read the book yet youre going great. Okay, okay, great. Okay. Just we are going to have time for questions so that i dont want to make a fitness contest. So there is a mic there. But if you have trouble getting to the mic, ill come to you. So just, you know, well well jump into your questions, the conversations talk up here for a bit and then well come to because obviously you all got a lot on your minds. So, so this book was so fascinating to me. Im so glad you wrote it because was its hard for a journalist. I mean, as a journalist, youre kind of trained to. Keep your business out of it. I mean, i know that thats, you know, some people are different, but the way w
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