On the executive director of the center for biography at the university of new york and we are sponsored from the leave the foundation to do events like this to arts and crafts of biography and a sponsor of the National Book festival and we are here with the 20th anniversary of the National Book festival talking tonight with two notable public intellectuals Harold Voelker the leading lincoln scholar and the director of the roosevelt house Public Policy of Hunter College today we will be discussing the latest book lincoln on the verge the story of the journey that lincoln took from illinois to washington dc to be inaugurated as president. These are two very different books this is a many paragraph the and this is harolds work on the president s. And that is the notion that american politics that is contentious and downright toxic. Toxic. Lets begin with you. So with the description of the dangerous train journey and at one point you refer to the toxic climate of 1860 is a worse toda tod
Hello, my name is kai bird, im the executive director of the leon leavy centers for biography at cuny, university of new york. We are sponsored by Sheldon Whitehouse and the abto promote the arts and crafts and biography among other things. We been a sponsor of the National Book festival for some years. We are here on a session with the 20th anniversary actually of the National Book festival, the theme this year is american ingenuity. We are going to be talking tonight with two notable publican intellectuals, Harold Holzer is one of the countries leading lincoln scholar, currently the director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at hunter college. Ted widmer is himself the author of eight books, professor witmer is now on my faculty abwe will be discussing his latest book lincoln on the verge thirteen days to washington. These are two very different books. Im going to hold up each of them. This is literally a mini biography, not so many, its a substantial book, focuses on 13
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I think im a rush to get back to normalcy has caused us to again be unproductive in bringing about long term systemic changes that are actionable, that art satisfies and causes america to leave up to its creed and but ideals. We have the right ideals. Hi im Shelley Quinn author journalist and contributor to the Washington Post. Today were going to discuss the eventual christians and their vote. We have two great guests today and our first guest im happy to say is bishop tea de digs from Potters House in texas. Welcome bishop jakes. I just want to remind you that the last time i interviewed you we were on a tight budget and we dont have a makeup budget so i had to make you have read before the interview. And i still have the little makeup thing which is now in a box with my prized possessions. Thats a sweet of you, thats so sweet, i couldve used you today. You could use a little powder but laughs today i want to start out by asking you about three issues that are forefront in all of our
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