Coming up tonight, booktv in prime time features books about the founding fathers. First, the author of first entrepreneur. And then the life of john quinty adams. And then lous louisa. Next, Edward Lengel talks about his book on George Washington. It took place at the president s former home mount vernon. [inaudible conversations] good evening, everyone. Lovely to get a full crowd like this. My name is Doug Bradford and i am the founding director of the study of George Washington which is where you are in the ruben stein hall. You made it. It is very exciting to have these book talks, free book talks, and thank you for supporting the book and mount vernon has never accepted any government money. They have been operating since the 1960s when they took over the estate of George Washington. They are on allwoman run organization and they are all built on private donations from individuals and foundations and the people that come there visit. It is a great honor to serve that mission to pr
Tonight, dker henriques lectures widely on subjects related to George Washington and has recorded at least five other lectures for cspan and we greatly appreciate they are being here this evening. He is the author of realistic visionary a portrait of George Washington. Please join me in welcoming professor peter henriques. [applause] peter i do not think i can top that, thank you very much. There is a touch of sadness coming to this presentation because we have been going through the different stages of washingtons life, i have enjoyed the opportunity to speak to you at this particular chapter. Says, i hope to be back in the fall with a different lecture. Lifenow, its been a great that wed seen washington live that even heroes grow old and even heroes go somewhat downhill. Ike all of us we know how quickly time goes by. The older you get, the faster time seems to go by. I look at the audience and see almost all of us are exactly the same age, between 50 and death. Of course, one sign o
They are being here this evening. He is the author of realistic visionary a portrait of George Washington. Which is available in our museum store. Please join me in welcoming professor peter henriques. [applause] peter i do not think i can top that, thank you very much. There is a touch of sadness coming to this presentation because we have been going through the different stages of washingtons life, i have enjoyed the opportunity to speak to you at this particular chapter. As trish says, i hope to be back in the fall with a different lecture. You know, its been a great life that wed seen washington live that even heroes grow old and even heroes go somewhat downhill like all of us. We know how quickly time goes by. The older you get, the faster time seems to go by. I look at the audience and see almost all of us are exactly the same age, between 50 and death. Of course, one sign of old age is forgetfulness. Did i take my pills or did i just think i took my pills . Where are my glasses
They are being here this evening. He is the author of realistic visionary a portrait of George Washington. Please join me in welcoming professor peter henriques. [applause] peter i do not think i can top that, thank you very much. There is a touch of sadness coming to this presentation because we have been going through the different stages of washingtons life, i have enjoyed the opportunity to speak to you at this particular chapter. As trish says, i hope to be back in the fall with a different lecture. You know, its been a great life that wed seen washington live that even heroes grow old and even heroes go somewhat downhill like all of us. We know how quickly time goes by. The older you get, the faster time seems to go by. I look at the audience and see almost all of us are exactly the same age, between 50 and death. [laughter] of course, one sign of old age is forgetfulness. Did i take my pills or did i just think i took my pills . Where are my glasses . That reminds me of a story.
It was a really sad moment. Washington saved the day with one of his famous speeches. You probably heard it in school. Ive gotten old serving my country and ive grown blind and the soldier said no whatever, well do it. Hamilton hamilton had tried to use this potential army coup to gain more power for the federation government. Washington walked wrote some very strong letters to hamilton in the mid 1780s. One line i do remember he said, its its like an older, very successful military officer talking to a young headstrong guy. He said remember an army is a dangerous thing to play with. In other words, this is out of bounds. At several other times, hamilton became a problem. I believe in the later years when hamilton thought there was a rising of people in pennsylvania, he manipulated washington into coming out of retirement and taking command briefly. It was a really ugly moment. There were no riders in rioters and washington was embarrassed. My reading was there was a man that washingto