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Please welcome yuval levin and john meacham. Hey guys, how are you . [applause] how are you. Good morning. Im the old guy up here. So history as you all know is about words. Thats why youre here. The stately rhythms of the declaration of independence. The cadences of the sconstitution but its also about sounds. About the muffled drama lexington cardboard and the sound of the surf at omaha beach. The sound of a minister at the march on washington calling on us to live up to the fullmeaning of our creed. Its also about music. Music is one of the most universal expressions. You can listen to a song with which you might disagree. More continually and more profitably than you could ever listen to a speech about something with which you disagree. Absolutely, its as sure as the patriots were carrying their swords and their guns, they were carrying their pins their pros and their poetry along with them to move this revolution forward. Henry David Thoreau once wrote when i hear music, i fear no
Lives presentation. I would like first to find the program sponsor, the law firm, for their generous support, not this year but for several years now. It is this kind of Corporate Support along with matt from so many of you as individuals that enables the great lives series to thrive. So i would like to ask our good friends from the law firm stand so we can acknowledge them. [applause] also, a special group tonight that i would like to knowledge, that is the simpson circle, a group composed of former Mary Washington members. They are here tonight and we would like to have them stand so we can acknowledge them. In introducing tonight speaker, dr. Joanne freeman, i would like to mention at the outset that one of her most commendable qualifications is that she received her phd from the university. Thats right, uva. [laughter] in any case, not long after receiving that degree, she was recognized already as one of the nations top young historians. She has subsequently has achieved widesprea
The program sponsor, the law firm, for their generous support, not this year but for several years now. It is this kind of corporate support, along with that from so many of you as individuals that enables the great lives series to thrive. So i would like to ask our good friends from the law firm trust so we can acknowledge them. [applause] also, a special group tonight that i would like to knowledge, that is the simpson circle, a group composed of former Mary Washington members. Bmv members. They are here tonight and we would like to have them stand so we can acknowledge them. [applause] in introducing tonights speaker, dr. Joanne freeman, i would like to mention at the outset that one of her most commendable qualifications is that she received her phd from the university. Thats right, uva. Right. [laughter] in any case not long after , receiving that degree, she was recognized already as one of the nations top young historians. She has subsequently has achieved widespread recognition
Evening ill say that right now. I want to thank our venue fantastic friends and their wonderful Committee Partners and all these organizations for helping us get the word out. I want to introduce janice and kelly and just minute that i want to ask you to silence your phones or any other noisemakers he might have with you tonight so we can just share everything. I hope many of you have visited gramercy books. We are right down the street. We invite any of you who have not been there before to come in we have been open for just over three years and we have hosted 300 events during that period. [applause] besides being a fullservice independent bookstore we intend to connect the community with authors launching important books and thats exactly what we are doing tonight. You receive a program when he came in and i want to quickly give a shoutout to three other events that are listed there. We have eight events every month per first two legend james ride. His latest novel won the National