I am peter carmichael. I am a professor of history here. I am also the director of the Civil War Institute. Its my pleasure this evening to welcome harold holzer. He is the director of Hunter Colleges roosevelt house Public Policy institute. You dont have an acronym for that, do you . Before coming to the roosevelt house he previously served an Senior Vice President for Public Affairs at the metropolitan museum of art. For the previous ten years he coedited or, excuse me, cochaired the u. S. Abraham lincoln bicentennial and appointed by president clinton and i should add president bush awarded harold the National Humanities medal in 2008. Harold has authored or coauthored or edited 52 books. Thats what youre up to now. I know you think ive read 52 books in my life. His latest major book is lincoln and the power of the press were the war for Public Opinion. It has won the lincoln prize as we know sponsored by Gettysburg College. Just this week i saw it was announced that harold has been
I am peter carmichael. I am a professor of history here. I am also the director of the Civil War Institute. Its my pleasure this evening to welcome harold holzer. He is the director of Hunter Colleges roosevelt house Public Policy institute. You dont have an acronym for that, do you . Before coming to the roosevelt house he previously served an Senior Vice President for Public Affairs at the metropolitan museum of art. For the previous ten years he coedited or, excuse me, cochaired the u. S. Abraham lincoln bicentennial and appointed by president clinton and i should add president bush awarded harold the National Humanities medal in 2008. Harold has authored or coauthored or edited 52 books. Thats what youre up to now. I know you think ive read 52 books in my life. His latest major book is lincoln and the power of the press were the war for Public Opinion. It has won the lincoln prize as we know sponsored by Gettysburg College. Just this week i saw it was announced that harold has been
I am peter carmichael. I am a professor of history here. I am also the director of the Civil War Institute. Its my pleasure this evening to welcome harold holzer. He is the director of Hunter Colleges roosevelt house Public Policy institute. You dont have an acronym for that, do you . Before coming to the roosevelt house he previously served an Senior Vice President for Public Affairs at the metropolitan museum of art. For the previous ten years he coedited or, excuse me, cochaired the u. S. Abraham lincoln bicentennial and appointed by president clinton and i should add president bush awarded harold the National Humanities medal in 2008. Harold has authored or coauthored or edited 52 books. Thats what youre up to now. I know you think ive read 52 books in my life. His latest major book is lincoln and the power of the press were the war for Public Opinion. It has won the lincoln prize as we know sponsored by Gettysburg College. Just this week i saw it was announced that harold has been
Institute. You do not have an acronym for that, do you . Before coming to the roosevelt house, harold previously served as Senior Vice President for Public Affairs at the metropolitan museum of art. The previous 10 years, he coedited excuse me, cochaired the u. S. Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission appointed by president clinton, and i should add, president bush awarded harold the National Humanities medal in 2008. Harold has authored or books . Red or edited 52 that is what you are up to now . I dont even think i have read 52 books in my life. His latest major book is lincoln and the power of the press. It has won the lincoln prize, we know. Just this week, i saw, it was announced harold has been awarded the empire state award,s and history acknowledging his significant contributions to the profession, and he joins an impressive list of recipients that includes doors kearns goodwin, david mccullough, ken burns, and james mcpherson. The event will be held on september 6 and at the
But you dont fool me. [ laughter ] to get out of the rain, you would applaud zamfir and his pan flute. [ laughter ] how are you doing tonight . [ cheering ] good to have you. As you probably know, if you were here yesterday, we have the first, i guess big storm of the season. Did it rain where you are . Well, i wasnt here. [ laughter ] where were you . I was back east, and it snowed. Aw. First snow . Yeah, first snow. Yeah. Rain here, and it drove into the ocean. But youll get it all back next week, if you order the catch of the day. [ laughter ] anyway, ed, let me explain. Ed is off tonight. Hes got a touch of the flu or something. Yeah. And he called in how a germ can live on ed, i dont know. [ laughter ] so doc moves over here and mr. Newsom moves where doc moves. Who moves into where you were . Um, the little old winemaker. Okay, sorry i asked. It should be fun. My day is going to be fun tonight, because we got jack paar with us tonight. Yeah. [ applause ] its been a long time. And