Blow you off and keep going. He lives in his own world. I think people take his aloofness for rudeness which is not that at all. He used to be a darius outgoing guy and then had a traumatic brain brain injury and it changed his body. I think its evolved and you see in the fall and that my wife is funny, she read this book and she said i finally like him. He reached his humanity level. At the core. It took me four books to get there but i like complicated guys and hes complicated. Host thank you for being with us for our indepth program and in this special series we sit with authors for three hours talking about their life in their work. David baldacci will spend the time with us today and we hope very much for both of us as we enjoy your interaction that you will be a part of the conversation. As we continue along here we put the phone numbers on the screen and our facebook and twitter handles so you can join in on the conversation and we very much would like to from your questions abo
Hogeland discusses Alexander Hamiltons financial ideas. This is about 50 minutes. Now, while the museum, the gallery of the museum is closed because of a flood that we sustained, our robust programming continues, as evidenced by today. And our author who is speaking is william hogeland. Hes written multiple books on early u. S. History, including autumn of the black snake, declaration, the whiskey rebellion, and founding finance. Hes also the author of a recent publication or not author, a contributor, i should say to a recent publication historians on hamilton. Hes also penned many essays and articles that you can read in places like the atlantic monthly, the new york times, boston review, huffington post, but none more important than our own magazine financial history. You can find that magazine at www. Moaf. Org for museum of American Finance. So, it should be no surprise that the topic of williams next book is Alexander Hamilton. Its my pleasure to introduce him, william hogeland.
Will be a book signing. Ellior ackerman, they have brought their new books for us and elliott is a marine war veteran, published many books. He is a National Book finalist award winner and also wrote for the new york times, the atlantic, the new yorker. Clay is a native nashville he and who has published many works as well. Mostly historical and also Deputy Editor in chief or up in chief for the new york times. We are going to let them talk about their books individually and after a few minutes you can you and a on points of the books that they enjoy. Great. Thank you very much and thank you for coming out. It is always a pleasure to be back here in nashville. When they told me we would be sitting together on a panel i was elated because im a great admirer of your work. One of my good friends at work is one of elliotts editors and over the years i have come to admire his work and maybe we could get into it at some point but despite the fact my book is about the spanishamerican war and
Multiple books on history and including autumn of the black snake, declaration, the whisky rebellion and hes also the author of a recent, not author a contributor of historians of hamilton and hes also roll many essays and articles that you can read like the atlanta, the new york times, boston, huffington post, but none more important than our own magazine financial history, you can find that magazine at www. Memo i thought or for museum of American Finance, so it should be no surprise of the topic of his next book is Alexander Hamilton, it is my pleasure to introduce him applause thanks a lot i know the acoustics and here can we were little bit, can anyone hear me . Okay thank you thats good to now, i think some of you now that maybe, im a little bit of a fish out of water here, i would like to point out that the museum has had me speak, this is the third time, in fact my very first ever top ana hamilton and other related issues was sponsored by the museum, and for my very first book
Has published many works as well. Many historical so we will let them talk about their books and then q a that you enjoy. It is always a real pleasure to be back here. When we would be sitting together i was as elated first was a great admirer of your work one is elliotts editors. And over the years ive come to admire his work with that overlaps with the spanishamerican war and is personal experience and things to finding common and outside we wrestled for who would go first. I will let you all guess how that all worked out. So i will talk about my book so how did i come to this one is cute and nostalgic entry 92. That superficial version of the roughriders story was part of the narrative. And with the spanishamerican war. And then part of a history writer to go explore those things you find interesting. At a certain point to decide more about that in history and to help define through the 20th century who we are today. Ii felt like this was one of those. And going through old obituari