Next on booktv, Tom Angelique and the American Revolution from assorted 18th Century Newspapers. Mr. Anderlecht contains newspapers from 1763 to 1783 examines reports ranging from the sugar of 18,642,000 concorde and bunker hill. Its an hour and 15. Its an honor to be speaking at the old state house. Thank you for coming. Thank you to the tv and cspan for joining us here. About three weeks into the design of reporting the revolutionary war, we realized we were on pace to producing 800 page from a twoinch thick volume and so we quickly cut corners and retrace our steps and decided to scale back and produce what is now a 400 page fullcolor book for you. Similarly, i prepare to fight our presentation for this evening and decided to scale back back to him are manageable 45 minutes. So ill start by saying that without these papers, there would have been no American Revolution. Newspapers are what fan the flames of rebellion, sustained loyalty to the cause, provide critical correspondence du
and said, look, you all know more about atlanta schools than anybody else. you all work this out. and when you get through, call me and i will make it a court order. [laughter] i mean, there was a trust and a realization that this was a real problem that had to be faced, regardless of the risks that were taken. now, compare that with right now, where, i mean, people are writing about stories in such a way that, well, they do better reporting on the south. i mean, there s more in depth reporting on the football games. we like our falcons. to your point earlier, too, and those who read the book, i would point you to the chapter on bogle is a, and while no one would ever say the press is more on the front lines of danger than the people in the movement themselves you can say that. but read a chapter. you will see jack and you ll see that famous finger he used in people s chest when clansmen were threatening jack and