Has an effect on your social life. This is what i go. People ask what i do for a hobby. This is what i do. Its a hobby and its work and i Rachel Sheldon reports on the political atmosphere in washington, d. C. , in the 1840s and 1850. The author reports that the impacted legislative writing and left lawmakers ill prepared for session. This is about half an hour. [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] so, first i want to thank you for coming. Its great to see some familiar faces and others and its great to be at one of my favorite bookstores. Ive been coming here for a long time. I appreciate the invitation. Its really appropriate for us to talk about the role of washington, d. C. , here in capital in the midst of the sectors subsequential of the civil war. It commemorates 150 years of the civil war. Which lasted four bloody years and captured the lives of more than 700,000 americans north and south. And when we think about the civil war, its typically with a sense of devicive relationsh
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