what is the story you tell? the story, to tell us how america morphed into a car culture to everyone wanting to get into cars and go places. i had not known until i started researching that henry ford and thomas edison were at the forefront of this. idea come to you for telling the story at this time? this is my 22nd book. what i do when i try to do when i write nonfiction books is to go everywhere where the people i write about went. i d rather drive and that way you really get a sense of place. somewhere along the line in the 30,000 or so miles i drive every year i started wondering how we got to be a country, a culture where we take for granted and we can get in a car and go anywhere we want to. i thought it would be a good idea to write a book about that and as always happens when you look into history, there s more to it than you ever expected. susan: your book begins and ends with someone that s a minor character, jeff bixby. we are going to show his picture on sc
dan: thank you so much. thank you, amanda. really generous and sweet introduction. i thank everybody for being here, otherwise, i would be up here by myself. especially, amanda told me the smithsonian associate people have reminded me how engaged these audiences are. i feel like i have to be up on my toes and really give you my a-game to take that seriously. and to be a little intellectual, be a little heavy. talking about the past, present, and future of the automobile. there s a lot of material in the book. look at that. it is right there. everything from teaching my daughter to drive, to a freudian analysis of henry ford. i cannot capture all of that tonight. what i thought i would do is talk about the early automobile and a little bit of this theory of how one understands that. the reason i am doing that is to put us in the present moment, where, as some of you may have heard, driverless cars are on the horizon. but at the end of the day, i really want to talk about cars.
who is the prolific author of some 26 books and about 22 behind, mom. it is these snail mail dispatches from the eastern front that reappear lightly edited in parts of the book and they help give the dispatches narrative some chronological order from 1975 when i first became, first began working in congress until 2010 when dean harry harding blessedly rescued me. now in editing these papers, the great folks at bancroft press works to encourage me to leave some of that naïve enthusiastic impressionable boys in and i did so what you have here are some stories about washington, about moscow, about a meeting with andrei sakharov and andre dmytro with jimmy carter, meetings with the nixon family, ted kennedy and with a young senator barack obama. they are stories about freshmen senators guys like howard baker, john kerry and joe biden when they first showed up on the foreign relations committee in the senate where i was the leadership staffer working for the committee. and there
and david ignatius. in a few minutes president carter will be in the next room signing his books. thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] fort myers, florida on booktv. the city of palms, fort myers is noted for its beaches including. the river itself first became a boundary back in the 1830s and at that time we had the second seminole war going on. president martin van buren has become very concerned about the cost of the war so he sent general alexander make room, who was the commanding officer of the entire united states army at that point down to florida with the orders to stop in his seminal work. attorney general robert kennedy spoke at length on lott institute about the impact of gideon v. wainwright. this is what he said. if an obscure and clarence earl gideon had not sat down jail with a pencil and paper to write his letter to supreme court and of the supreme court had not taken the trouble to look for mary and not one crude petition among a
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