Here. Its my pleasure to welcome you all an audience and to welcome our guest, allen guelzo. He is discussing his book,robert e. Lee a life, a biography of the figure that we all may know, and has a lot of interesting insight in the book. It was just published yesterday, and allen, we are so excited to have you. You can get a copy of the book from Atlanta History Center book, its online, we ship, there is in store pick up. We want to quickly introduce my speaker and then turn it over to him. And given orientation an introduction to his work. Allen guelzo is a Research Scholar at council of humanities, princeton university. Hes a specialist in early 19th century American History. He won the lincoln prize three times, a prize for military history and other honors. Allen, welcome, and thank you so much for being here. Thank you very much, claire for hosting this program, monique for acting as our wonderful Technical Support and hello to all of my friends in atlanta, a city i have known an
Welcome to Atlanta History Centers, virtual author talk series. Im here for the history center, its my absolute pleasure to welcome tonights special guest, alan guelzo. Allen will be discussing his newest book, robert e. Lee a life, it comprehensive biography of a figure a lot of us think we might now, but will cover new interesting insight about him. If i said earlier, it was just published yesterday, so congratulations allen, were so excited to have you a day after publication day. You can purchase a copy of the book from the Atlanta History Center bookstore its online, we ship, there is instore pick up. We want to quickly introduce my speaker and then turn it over to him. And give an orientation an introduction to his work. Allen guelzo is a Research Scholar at the council of humanities, princeton university. Hes a specialist in early 19th century american history. He won the lincoln prize three times, a prize for military history and other honors. He lives in pennsylvania allen, we
Nation of mali get more mention this week in the debate than all of japan, mexico, or europe . First, my take. The International Monetary funds latest World Economic outlook makes for gloomy roading. Growth projections have been revised downward almost everywhere, especially in europe and the big emerging markets like china. Yet when looking out over the next four years, coincidentally the next president ial term, the imf projects that the United States will be the strongest of the worlds rich economies. U. S. Growth is forecast to average 3 , much stronger than that was germany or france, at 1. 2 , or even canada at 2. 3 . Increasingly the evidence suggests that the United States has come out of the financial crisis of 2008 in better shape than its peers because of the actions of its government. Perhaps the most important cause of americas relative health is the federal reserve. Ben bernanke understood the depths of the problem early and responded energetically and creatively. The cle
Nation of mali get more mention this week in the Foreign Policy debate than all of japan, mexico, or europe . First, my take. The International Monetary funds latest World Economic outlook makes for gloomy reading. Growth projections have been revised downward almost everywhere, especially in europe and the big emerging markets like china. Yet when looking out over the next four years, coincidentally the next president ial term, the imf projects that the United States will be the strongest of the worlds rich economies. U. S. Growth is forecast to average 3 , much stronger than that was germany or france, at 1. 2 , or even canada at 2. 3 . Increasingly the evidence suggests that the United States has come out of the financial crisis of 2008 in better shape than its peers because of the actions of its government. Perhaps the most important cause of americas relative health is the federal reserve. Ben bernanke understood the depths of the problem early and responded energetically and crea
Historian carol berkin is next on booktv. She recounts the life of Elizabeth Bonaparte the onetime wife of the brother jerome and a native of baltimore maryland. This is a little under an hour. [applause] thank you for coming out on a cold night. Elizabeth patterson bonaparte was a legend, curiosity walking slowly down the streets in the 1870s, her trademark held high above her head to protect her from sun or rain. On the other arm she carried in a laboratory and the wished bag that was rumored to hold all of her jewels to rea rate her dress no longer fashionable perhaps made in that area when napoleon dominated europe and america was a little more than a fledgling nation. It was clear that even in her old age she conveyed an elegance and a sense of superiority that captured admiration is curiosity. As she stopped at one building and then the next knocking on doors and demanding their rent owed to her, the passerby as might have recognizesmight have cities and countries first female ce