Within your means please pot buy books at the book tent. This festival is free to all of us, but book sales are important because it helps publishers and convinces them to send their authors to the book festival and we would like to continue to make this festival grow. Its now my great privilege to introduce our speaker, Sidney Blumenthal was the former assistant and Senior Advisor to president bill clinton and Senior Advisory to Hillary Clinton and began his career as a journalist and has been an National Staff reporter for the washington post. Washington editor and staff writer for the new yorker and Senior Writer for the new republic as well as contributor to many other publications. He has also written several bestsellers, the clinton wars, rise of the counter establishment and the Permanent Campaign and has worked in television and film was executive producer for the Academy Awards taxi to the dark side. He is here with us today to talk about his newest book, wrestling with his an
Proceedings lincoln knew how to use a fun to advantage, an opposing liar who claimed he could bring a man to prove an alibi heard lincoln shooting back i have no doubt you can bring a man to prove a lie by. You can watch this and other programs online a book tv. Org. Book tv tapes hundreds of other programs throughout country all year long. Heres a look at some events we will cover this week. Monday, National Press club in washington where derek grapple report on the us governments doomsday plan. That evening we fly out to california where former speechwriter and Senior Advisor to president richard nixon, pat buchanan will shed light on the inmate nixon administration. On wednesday, to the macarthur memorial where Washington Post Foreign Correspondent peter eisner will recall how the contingent of filipinos and americans survived Japanese Occupation of the philippines during world war ii. Also that evening in denver at the chatter cover bookstore to hear Laura Cardwell discuss how 14 e
We will hear in this talk about how lincoln crafted and refined it. [applause] Sidney Blumenthal well, thank you very much for those kind and generous words. I have been delighted to spend a number of years in the 19th century, and im looking forward to spending more of them there. [laughter] [applause] Sidney Blumenthal i am deeply honored for this invitation to address the lincoln forum, and i thank chief williams, the chairman, and carol hauser, the vicechairman, who have both devoted themselves for decades to writing and education on abraham lincoln. And i particularly pleased to be here on the 21st lincoln forum. As frank noted, this year i published the first of a multivolume political biography of lincoln entitled the selfmade man. It describes a poor, stunted and oppressed boy who hammers together, on his own, the elements of the men who will be lincoln. The second volume, to be published next year, entitled wrestling with his angel places lincoln entering the political wildern
We will hear in this talk about how lincoln crafted and refined it. [applause] Sidney Blumenthal well, thank you very much for those kind and generous words. I have been delighted to spend a number of years in the 19th century, and im looking forward to spending more of them there. [laughter] [applause] Sidney Blumenthal i am deeply honored for this invitation to address the lincoln forum, and i thank chief williams, the chairman, and carol hauser, the vicechairman, who have both devoted themselves for decades to writing and education on abraham lincoln. And i particularly pleased to be here on the 21st lincoln forum. As frank noted, this year i published the first of a multivolume political biography of lincoln entitled the selfmade man. It describes a poor, stunted and oppressed boy who hammers together, on his own, the elements of the men who will be lincoln. The second volume, to be published next year, entitled wrestling with his angel places lincoln entering the political wildern
Williams, the chairman, and carol hauser, the vicechairman, who have both devoted themselves for decades to writing and education on abraham lincoln. I am particularly pleased to be here on the 21st lincoln forum. As frank noted, this year i published the first of a multivolume political biography of lincoln entitled the selfmade man. It describes a poor, stunted and oppressed boy who hammers together, on his own, the elements of the man who will be lincoln. The second volume, to be published next year, entitled wrestling with his angel places with his angel, places lincoln entering the political wilderness after leaving the congress and emerging as the man who was lincoln. I am speaking here tonight about this crucible, the period in which lincoln committed himself to putting slavery on the course of ultimate extinction as he declared in his cooper union address. And as he grappled to create the means to his ends. Lincoln had always been, as he put it, naturally antislavery. He was on