Mark Hello America i am market trend two and this is life, Liberty Levin sunday. Thank you for being here. When i was growing up it wasnt that long ago but long enough, i really look forward to television on saturdays and sundays. Particularly in the evening. I was glued to the screen watching the firing line with the great bill buckley. Even pbs from time to time particularly when they ran a series of free to choose based on milton freedmans book. We are introduced to great men so many others ronald reagan. I miss that today, i really do. Tv has changed a lot. We have and that is okay. I tried to do this program a little differently, slow things down, think about it, dig a little more deeply even go into the great philosophers and writers and so forth. We have two great guest this evening with Victor Davis Hanson and Newt Gingrich. I will be a great show not because of me but because of them. But i do want to dig deeply. When you look at what has happened to our Justice System and the
Distinguished panel of americas leading lincoln scholars to discuss lincolns speeches and the american idea. Michael birmingham holds the chancellor naomi b lynn distinguished chair and lichen studies at the university of illinois springfield. Hes the author of several books on lincoln including and lincoln observed the inner world of Abraham Lincoln and the two volume american Abraham Lincoln a life as well as his new book, which hell be discussing tonight. The black mans president Abraham Lincoln African Americans and the pursuit of racial equality. Noah. Feldman is the Felix Frankfurter professor of law chair of the society of fellows and founding director of the Julis Rabinowitz Program on jewish and israeli law at harvard university. Hes the author of nine books including the three lives of James Madison genius partisan president and his latest book which will be tonight the broken constitution lincolns slavery and the refounding of america diana. Shall is professor of Political S
Have great day. Thank you very much. So welcome, everyone. This is i. Im president of the the Lincoln Group of d. C. My name is David Jay Kent and on tonights special program, the Lincoln Group, what they said marks 160th anniversary of lincolns gettysburg address, which was given november 19th, 1863. Im going to kick off program by reading the gettysburg address so that we all have it in our mind because its very short. Then three of our members will each discuss one aspect of this brief, but revealing elegy our nation first tom peet well discuss. Lincoln viewed the declaration of independence and not the constitution as a nations key founding. John. I mean, john obrien, sorry john o brien well discuss lincolns use of religious symbolism in the address and then ed epstein. Well talk about how lincolns two minute speech at gettysburg changed american political oratory forever. After that, all, members will be invited to offer their own and questions. The discussion i will be tonights m
The point where he gives positive orders. Do what i want, but theres always tension and we see that tension not just with mcclellan, but we see it with burnside side, we see it with hooker. And although tend to gloss over it, i think we see it with grant as well. So there. Well, youve conveniently welcome to this session, which provided a segue way by mentioning grant and andy, i is a debate we think on the wonder about some of your topic of lincoln and his thoughts because youre youre working on a book project that generals and i am glenn that involves lincoln and grant. Lafantasie from professor yeah. Thank you glenn. Emeritus from western kentucky and most important i should say that this a distinct privilege to be sitting on a panel with university wrti and Bowling Green and we have with us this historians who. Morning a distinguished panel i, ive long had the great esteem for and their books have been i regret to say that one of our really formative, shaping my own thinking. So th
Welcome to this session, which is a debate we think on the topic of lincoln and his generals and i am Glenn Lafantasie from Professor Emeritus from Western Kentucky University wrti and Bowling Green and we have with us this morning a distinguished panel i, i regret to say that one of our panelists took ill and lauren foote will not be joining us this morning. But shes at home recuperating fighting with many regrets that cant be here. But let me go ahead and introduce our panelists for you and you have longer biographies of these people in your packets. But i thought id go ahead and introduce people anyway. And to my immediate right is. Ken. No. He is the drawn of southern history at auburn here received his doctorate. Doctorate from, the university of illinois. His most recent book is, the howling storm, whether and the american civil war. He is currently writing about the idea and the realities of Abraham Lincoln as a commander in chief to his right Harold Holzer who all of you im sur