On the executive director of the center for biography at the university of new york and we are sponsored from the leave the foundation to do events like this to arts and crafts of biography and a sponsor of the National Book festival and we are here with the 20th anniversary of the National Book festival talking tonight with two notable public intellectuals Harold Voelker the leading lincoln scholar and the director of the roosevelt house Public Policy of Hunter College today we will be discussing the latest book lincoln on the verge the story of the journey that lincoln took from illinois to washington dc to be inaugurated as president. These are two very different books this is a many paragraph the and this is harolds work on the president s. And that is the notion that american politics that is contentious and downright toxic. Toxic. Lets begin with you. So with the description of the dangerous train journey and at one point you refer to the toxic climate of 1860 is a worse toda tod
Hello, my name is kai bird, im the executive director of the leon leavy centers for biography at cuny, university of new york. We are sponsored by Sheldon Whitehouse and the abto promote the arts and crafts and biography among other things. We been a sponsor of the National Book festival for some years. We are here on a session with the 20th anniversary actually of the National Book festival, the theme this year is american ingenuity. We are going to be talking tonight with two notable publican intellectuals, Harold Holzer is one of the countries leading lincoln scholar, currently the director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at hunter college. Ted widmer is himself the author of eight books, professor witmer is now on my faculty abwe will be discussing his latest book lincoln on the verge thirteen days to washington. These are two very different books. Im going to hold up each of them. This is literally a mini biography, not so many, its a substantial book, focuses on 13
The schedule was grueling, almost as tough as her husbands but through all of it, rosalynn remained in earnest and gracious campaigner. People ask me how can you stand here, Everybody Knows everything you do. Are just tell them that we were born and raised in georgia with a population of 683 and everybody has always known everything i did. There was no hint of scandal in his personal life. I really believe he can restore honesty, integrity, openness, confidence in government we so sorely need in our country today. I think he will be a great president. That was Rosalynn Carter. She arrived at the white house after the 1976 campaign with a blueprint to go to work. She was a valued political partner to her husband jimmy, but found that there were many obstacles facing a first lady who wanted to influence public policy. She became known as a staunch advocate for those struggling with their Mental Health. He will hear directly from her, featuring footage from cspans video library. First, he