That everybody else has and to be told he cant have that . John demos repressor emeritus at the university is next on booktv. He recounts the creation of the school by a group of protestant ministers in the 19th century whose goal was to evangelize and educate students throughout the world namely native americans and Pacific Islanders and then send them back to their respective communities as missionaries. This is about an hour and a half. Thank you very much. I really appreciate the chance to talk to you tonight about this new book of mine. Its actually published only a week ago and to me this feels like a little like a kickoff of whats going to be actually a number of talks i will be doing here and there. This is the first one and a chance to try it out on all of you. I hope to be doing it later on as well but i will find out what works and what doesnt work when i talk here tonight. Let me just say that my plan for this presentation has two or three different parts. I will start by s
It is published only a week ago and it feels like a little kickoff of what is going to be a number of talks that i will be doing here and there. This is the first one. A chance to try it out on all of you what i might hope to be doing later on as well. I will find out what works and doesnt work when i talk here tonight. Let me just say that my plan for this presentation has 23 different parts. I will start by saying a little bit about how i got on to this project in the first place and something about the process of working with it for a good number of years. Then i will move to a thumbnail, 1520 minute thumbnail of the story that lies at the heart of the book, and then i will do a little reading from the book, a certain passage or two from the book to give you a sense of flavor of what is in between the covers, and maybe at the very end i will say a little bit about what drew me to the project and while i think it was worth spending a few years working on and it might be worth reading
Then ill do a little reading from the book, a certain passage or two from the book to give you a sense of the flavor of whats between these coffers. And covers, and maybe at the very end ill say a little bit about what drew me to the project in the first place and why i think it was worth spending quite a few years working on. It might even be worth reading a book about. How i got to the project. It was by total chance, serendipity. I have an old friend who has a house in the town of cornwall not too far from here, and one day in the mid 90s this was quite a while back my friend invited my wife and myself down for dinner. And as i recall it, we were standing around in the it was a summer evening, we were standing around outside with gin and tonics in our hands, i think, and one of the neighbors who was also a dinner guest started to tell us a little, what he called a piece of local history. He said, you know, its just a piece of local history, but im a history guy, so maybe i would be