[ applause ] thank you. let me just start by asking, what sparked your interest, your passion for history? i believe you grew up in massachusetts near concord and a number of historic sites. did that play a role in it? no, i don t think so. i just was interested in stories. i read a lot. i had a terrible high school teacher, i must say, in i went to waltham high school, and he was horrible, but it didn t dampen my interest. i just read history and enjoyed it. but as dave said earlier, i had planned to go into the foreign service. i graduated from tufts. i was going to serve my three years at air force as a rotc and go to fletcher school. it s connected to tufts. it s part of georgetown. an fso, foreign service officer training school, but my experience and being arbitrarily treated by the federal government in the military soured me on working for the government so i decided i changed my mind in japan to apply to graduate school, and i ve never regretted it at all.
planned to go into the foreign service. i graduated from tufts. i was going to serve my three years in the air force as a rotc commitment and come back and go to fletcher school of diplomacy, which is connected to tufts. it s part of georgetown. an fso, foreign service officer training school. but my experience in being arbitrarily treated by the federal government in the military soured me on working for the government, so i decided i changed my mind in japan to apply to graduate school and i ve never regretted it at all. any book that you ve written that you felt was particularly challenging or perhaps you wanted to start off by finding or proving one point but along the way you found something quite different? well, no, i m not sure that i found something different. i had a sense already of the outline of the period that we became a much more democratic society by the early 19th century and that this transformed our culture in fundamental ways, and that became my boo
them. this conversation is just under an hour. let me just start by asking, what sparked your interest, your passion for history? i believe you grew up in massachusetts near concord and a number of historic sites. did that play a role in it? no, i don t think so. i just was interested in stories. i read a lot. i had a terrible high school teacher, i must say, in i went to waltham high school, and he was horrible, but it didn t dampen my interest. i just read history and enjoyed it. but as dave said earlier, i had planned to go into the foreign service. i graduated from tufts. i was going to serve my three years in the air force as a rotc commitment and come back and go to fletcher school of diplomacy, which is connected to tufts. it s part of georgetown. an fso, foreign service officer training school. but my experience in being arbitrarily treated by the federal government in the military soured me on working for the government, so i decided i changed my mind in japa
planned to go into the foreign service. i graduated from tufts. i was going to serve my three years in the air force as a rotc commitment and come back and go to fletcher school of diplomacy, which is connected to tufts. it s part of georgetown. an fso, foreign service officer training school. but my experience in being arbitrarily treated by the federal government in the military soured me on working for the government, so i decided i changed my mind in japan to apply to graduate school and i ve never regretted it at all. any book that you ve written that you felt was particularly challenging or perhaps you wanted to start off by finding or proving one point but along the way you found something quite different? well, no, i m not sure that i found something different. i had a sense already of the outline of the period that we became a much more democratic society by the early 19th century and that this transformed our culture in fundamental ways, and that became my boo
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