Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the National Constitution center. [ applause ] i am Jeffrey Rosen, the president of this wonderful institution. And its such a great day to celebrate the relationship between National Constitution center and cspan. Cspan has an inspiring nonpartisan mission to bring unfiltered information about the u. S. Government to american citizens and that coincides with the National Constitution centers mission, which i all want you to recite along with me to inspire our guests and our cspan viewers. The National Constitution center is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the constitution on a nonpartisan basis. Beautiful. That was so well done. [ applause ] i was so thrilled when my friend and colleague, susan swain, the head of cspan, came a few months ago or weeks ago, about three weeks ago, that said we have this great new book on the president s. Lets launch it at the National Constitution center. Were here to
Best and worst chief executives. We hear from author rosen, Michael Gearhart and from Robert Strauss. His book is worst president ever about james buchanan. [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the National Constitution center. I am Jeffrey Rosen, the president of this wonderful institution and this is such a happy day to celebrate the great collaboration between the National Constitution center and cspan. Cspan has an inspiring nonpartisan mission to bring unfiltered information about the u. S. Government to american citizens, and that coincides with the National Constitution centers mission which i now want all of you to recite along with me to inspire our guests and our cspan viewers. The National Constitution center is the National Constitution center is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. Beautiful. That was so well done. [ applause ] i was so thrilled when my friend and coll
Craig fehrman, the author of the new book author in chief. Who was oran follett . Why did he make the claim that he made Abraham Lincoln president . Oran follett was a publisher in ohio. He had is a Printing Firm in ohio. They published lots of different local books. He had the distinct privilege to publish Abraham Lincolns bestselling book. We should probably back up, because a lot of people do not know that he wrote one. When lincoln ran for the senate and lost to Stephen Douglas, they had their famous debate. During the debates, there were a couple of people from newspapers transcribing the debates, writing down shorthand and then a couple of days later, they would print it in papers so people who didnt attend could read it in the newspapers. Lincoln, after he lost the senate race, for most people, the story stopped there. This is breaking news. Lets move on. Lincoln, after he lost the senate race, he worked hard to gather those newspaper transcript. He worked hard. There are at lea
He had the distinct privilege of being the person to publish Abraham Lincolns bestselling book. Guess i should back up a little bit because people dont know that Abraham Lincoln wrote a bestselling book. When lincoln ran for senate and lost to stephen douglas, they had their famous debate. During the debate, there were always a couple of people from newspapers who were transcribing by shorthand and the next day or couple of days later they would be printed newspapers of those who did not attend could read about what happened. News, but lincoln, after he also senate race, work very hard to gather those newspaper transcripts, and i mean worked very hard. There have been nine surviving letters, and he cut them out column by column and pasted them in a scrapbook. You can still see the scrapbook today in the library of congress. Taken a tiny edison pencil, if one paragraph isnt quite accurate, he is cutting it out and putting a different paragraph in its place. Contains 100,000 of lincolns
The author of the new book author in chief. Who was oran follett . Why did he make the claim that he made Abraham Lincoln president . Oran follett was a publisher in ohio. He had is a Printing Firm in ohio. They published lots of different local books. He had the distinct privilege to publish Abraham Lincolns bestselling book. We should probably back up, because a lot of people do not know that he wrote one. When lincoln ran for the senate and lost to Stephen Douglas, they had their famous debate. During the debates, there were a couple of people from newspapers transcribing the debates, writing down shorthand and then a couple of days later, they would print it in papers so people who didnt attend could read it in the newspapers. Lincoln, after he lost the enate race, for most people, the story stopped there. This is breaking news. Lets move on. Lincoln, after he lost the senate race, he worked hard to gather those newspaper transcript. He worked hard. There are at least nine survivin