Well, thank you very much. First of all, the apologies. A slightly weird to be writing a book called the menu United States during its time when given that reason struggles and washington is seems more disunited and it has been prolonged a long time. Icons, a very short trip of music at the end. I just hope that there will be no telephones during his presentation. Otherwise i will feel like it was altered the had to answer actually addressing a huge political concept. So lets hope that does not happen. What i want to try and do tonight is to tell you a bit more of the background of this book which is a big sort of plum pudding of an affair. Once i tell you how it all come into being, plums from the putting. The background, quite a complex story. You might be able to tell english. I fell in love with this country quite literally when i first arrived here in 1962. Hitchhiking. I basically met at a science fair in london, the delegates, and met a young canadian women, 16. We met at the ho
One of the great ones. It is so wonderful to see if thriving under bradley end and i hope will continue to thrive for many years to come. One per cent in the audience my friend pat ferguson who wrote a wonderful book called freedom rising and a book that i really relied on writing this book if you dont know the book, you should. I hope it is for sale here somewhere. [laughter] it occurred to me to write about Matthew Brady eight years ago after the civil war he led one of the great scientific surveys of the west where the people he has to who was becoming the airport and important american photographer the first Time Photography had been used this way as part of a scientific expedition. Zero sullivan was a protege of brady there probably met on Staten Island where brady had a home in the 1850s. Well he was running his duty studio where Timothy Osullivan grew up, i realized there was not a firstrate book about mathew brady that astonished me and all of us know about the name of mathew b
1901. I thought, who could this below be . Theourse, when i opened archives, i realized with a rich subject it was. John hay, his life really has two bookends at either end of his biographical shelf. There is lincoln on one end, he was his private secretary, lived in the white house for every war years. So much of what we know about techoln come from hays with him. He served on the mckinley as well and was secretary of state for teddy roosevelt, so you have these iconic bookends in american history, and then when you look deeper, you realize all the chapters in between, from the civil war to the beginning of the 20thcentury, he is a presence in every one of those chapters. His fingerprints are on the pages. In many cases, he has written those chapters in american history. When did he live . Born in 1838, and died on july 1 1905. Where did his last start . When was born in indiana, he was a young boy, his father was a doctor, which moved to warsaw, ill. , which is a Mississippi River to
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