One of the great ones. It is so wonderful to see if thriving under bradley end and i hope will continue to thrive for many years to come. One per cent in the audience my friend pat ferguson who wrote a wonderful book called freedom rising and a book that i really relied on writing this book if you dont know the book, you should. I hope it is for sale here somewhere. [laughter] it occurred to me to write about Matthew Brady eight years ago after the civil war he led one of the great scientific surveys of the west where the people he has to who was becoming the airport and important american photographer the first Time Photography had been used this way as part of a scientific expedition. Zero sullivan was a protege of brady there probably met on Staten Island where brady had a home in the 1850s. Well he was running his duty studio where Timothy Osullivan grew up, i realized there was not a firstrate book about mathew brady that astonished me and all of us know about the name of mathew b
Mid presenting a history of the united in the mid 189th century. The author recounts the ever changing american landscape during this time from the growing borders to the debate over slavery. The civil war, and reconstruction. This is about ab an hour. [applause] thank you, knick. Thank you to all of you for coming tonight. Thank you to the people at Harper Colins to give support and making a beautiful book. As you can see, its quite lovely. Im talking just about the physicality. You can judge the odds inside on your own. As nick said, this book covers a thirty year span of american list i are in the middle of the 19th century when nothing much happens. There was just so i dont know the Womens Movement, and the country divided in two, and there were spiritualist and a spirit rappers and pt barn all part of the same cultural moment. In case you are getting bored. There was a war, a dreadful war where 750,000 people were killed. It thats probably a figure that is not finished being revis
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