Declaration of independence. How the document was written, revised and edited, and how later generations interpreted the declaration. This is 2 hours and 45 minutes. Good morpning, everybody. Its a pleasure to be here. Thank you so much for joining us. I want to start by thanking our hosts, the archives. Its been extraordinary, the way theyve jumped into supporting my effort to bring more attention to the question of how we read the declaration of independence and how we think about the diversity of the declarations textual tradition. We are punctuating happyinesshappiness. Were focused on the second sentence intently of the declaration of independence. Im going to reintroduce the second sentence to you and invite my panelists to expand. Well each speak for 12 minutes, leaving time for questions from all of you. I understand we may also have some questions coming in over email or twitter, possibly. Im not sure exactly how that works. I imagine somebody will. Thatll become magically cle
Were so glad youre here tonight. Were very happy to have Larry Goldstone with us, author of more than a dozen books, both fiction and nonfiction. He is currently this is the third dont know if theres another in your series on industrial innovators. I thunderstorm the drive did did quite well, the one on ford and another one on the bright brother going deep on the development of to the military submarine, john phillip holland. Cant speak to marines out of the three, planes, car, and sub marines, subma ripes one you wont find me. In lawrence, welcome. Thank you. [applause] thank you, kramer books, for hosting and booktv. For those of you who know my work, which is probably not many of you, ive written on any number of things. Ive written of history of medicine, rare books, written on constitutional law, written on reading to kids. Ive written on innovation. And so im usually asked and i know all of you now are dying to know, how do you find topics . And this topic was kind of came in a t
She is the author of Stonewall Jacksons warhorse little , an Unlikely Hero of the civil war. Post Sharon B Smith was a police beat reporter, covered the texas state legislature, and was a weekend anchor. Share and then worke went east aere she worked as legislative reporter. And after espn went on the air she moved into sports journalism. She anchored sportscenter, and stretch, down the the first weekly Horse Racing Program on Cable Television. She anchored the kentucky derby, the breeders crown, and the to lookian, which i had up before i gave this talk. She is the author of several books on horse racing, training, and the civil or, including retraining, teaching previous new skills to old horses. Why are you writing books if you know so much about betting on horses . War a guidecivil for travelers, and most recently, Stonewall Jacksons little sorrell an Unlikely Hero of the civil war. Please welcome Sharon B Smith. [applause] sharon yes, i did write a book on betting on horses and re
York is known for everything. I was in new york and it is very. Oung i think it was 9, 10 or 11 and it was the first time i encountered hunger. Wase was a fellow that hovering until people were finished with their meals and some of them left things. One had left a blueberry muffin on their plate. He took it and then he would wait for someone else. He was scrounging for food. It is funny to encounter hunger in a Place Associated with such bounty, or what have you. Rick let me ask you one final question. Is this it for you . Youryou exhausted authority all juices, or do you happen a have another book coming out soon as well . Mark actually have another book that came out this week. [laughter] i have a but they came out this week which is translation of a novel called the belly of paris. Which is an absolutely wonderful man whohe story of a accidentally gets arrested in a riot and is taken for a subversive and sent to devil island and miraculously escapes. In the beginning of the book he
Program for young people with autism. We had about 90 in people since we open in 2009. So thats one of our main things we do. And then again as you saw in the video we bring in great authors and we are very excited to have amy knight here for a host of reasons. First, we believe this is the first time weve had a motherdaughter author team. We are privileged to have molly here a few years ago for her book, and we are super pleased to have her mama here with us for orders to kill. This is your fifth book, is that right . Six book. And its a story about whats going on currently in moscow. Amy is one of the leading experts on what was the kgb and now the fsb and rights for the new yorker, book details some of the plots by putin that involve killing russian leaders, and its really a spellbinding tale and we are thrilled to offer, to present amy knight do you, and its a lot so much. [applause] so thank you for coming. Im going to start off kind of traditionally and just carry a little bit ab