Presidencpresident s into the bos featured historians, visit cspan. Org the president s available in paperback, hardback and ebook, wherever books are sold. Welcome to the program supposed to be cosponsored by the university of history. My name is jim andsign presidenand im president of theg important books in American History which 18th century volumes behind me or current important books by some of the major prizewinning historians in the country. William roka at the institute most recently on the Hamilton Education program, william will present the historians and then died the question and answer session towards the end. Other programs sponsored by lehrman. Good afternoon everyone is welcome to the Gilder Lehrman book break here on june 14. Welcome, everyone. Todays guest will be professor Elizabeth Varon in her book, armies of deliverance. For those that are not familiar with the Gilder Lehrman institute, first welcome. We are so glad you could join us. To tell you just a little bi
Always free and open to the public. You come here and you buy your look and you buy your stock and greeting cards and we really appreciate it. Our guests will be speaking tonight. The event will be recorded icy spam, sell an extra special reminder to silence your cell phones. After our guest is done speaking about the book there will be an opportunity to ask questions and people have mics available so that your questions can be picked up as well. If you would like to stick around afterwards and get a book signed we can accommodate that. We just ask that you first purchased the book downstairs. They are available right when you walk into the store. Tonight we are very excited to welcome back to the store hw brands. He is a professor here at uc and he holds the senior chair in history. He is the news york times bestselling author of 30 books. If you can keep history that interesting to write 30 books that tells you something about how fantastic his work is pretty to does books were final
Many of you honestly know him. Hes cohost of morning edition on npr. Hes also the author of this great book on jessie and john fremont. How many people are here from fremont . We have a couple, okay great. Thank you very much, steve, for coming. [applause] thank you. Appreciate it. Thanks everyone, and good day. Delighted you could come this afternoon. Im delighted to be here in San Francisco, one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and particularly to talk about jessie and john fremont who had so much to do with the creation of california as we know it and so much to do with the creation of San Francisco as we know it. I got into San Francisco about 2 30 a. M. On a delayed flight from los angeles, got a couple of hours of sleep at an Airport Hotel and then woke up again because i was to be picked up by a car and driven up the highway into San Francisco to do a live radio thing on kqed. The thing about life radio is it begins at a very exact time. The thing about going through S
Cspan. Org thepresident s, order your copy today wherever books and ebooks are sold. Can everybody hear me okay . We appreciate you supporting our event. I have a couple quick House Keeping announcements first. Silence your cell phones. If you would like to keep those on and that is fine but turn off your flash. We have 300 every year. We need to do that because if you come here you by your socks and greeting cards. Our guests will be speaking tonight, recorded by steve that cspan. After this, we will have an opportunity to ask questions and we will have mikes available. If you would like to stick around, we can accommodate that but ask that you purchase the book downstairs, it is on the information desk. We are excited welcome back to the store, h. W. Brands, a professor who holds the senior chair, the New York Times bestselling author, it is interesting, you can buy 30 books that tells you something. Two of his books were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize winning biography and he is h
I can very much, steve, are coming. [applause] thank you. Appreciate it. Thanks everyone and good day here delighted that you could come this afternoon. Im delighted to be in San Francisco, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. And particularly to talk about jessie and john fremont who it so much to do with the creation of california as we know it. And so much to do with the creation of San Francisco as we know it. I got into summer cisco about 2 30 a. M. On a delayed flight from los angeles. Got a couple of hours of sleep in an Airport Hotel and then woke up again because i was to be picked up by a car and driven up the highway into San Francisco to do a live radio thing on kqed. The thing about live radio is it begins at a very exact time. The thing about going through San Francisco traffic is that youre you are really not going to make your exact time. I was supposed to be 8 a. M. That i would be there for the National Radio and at 80 m im still the road in the back of this