Very special event here at the Gerald R Ford president ial museum. Really proud to see all of you coming out to enjoy, i think, whats going be a very stimulating discussion about. Our home, we dont know enough about. Im gleaves. Im the executive director of the Gerald R Ford president ial foundation. My this evening is jon lauck, whos a writer and researcher hes written many books. Ive got several of them here that he and i have worked on together on, the midwest. And were going to explore that. So im welcoming you, our Live Audience and our cspan viewers everywhere. So, john, i think we ought get right into it. Please tell us about your background and you have real midwestern roots. I mean, you come by all of this honestly raised on a midwestern you know, you went to big colleges, you know, both your ph. D. In history and your law degree, and youve had quite a career in the midwest. So tell us yourself. Well, thank you. And thanks to everyone here in grand rapids for coming out tonigh
Good evening and welcome to this very special event here at the Gerald R Ford president ial museum. Really proud to see all of you coming out to enjoy, i think, whats going be a very stimulating discussion about. Our home, we dont know enough about. Im gleaves. Im the executive director of the Gerald R Ford president ial foundation. My this evening is jon lauck, whos a writer and researcher hes written many books. Ive got several of them here that he and i have worked on together on, the midwest. And were going to explore that. So im welcoming you, our Live Audience and our cspan viewers everywhere. So, john, i think we ought get right into it. Please tell us about your background and you have real midwestern roots. I mean, you come by all of this honestly raised on a midwestern you know, you went to big colleges, you know, both your ph. D. In history and your law degree, and youve had quite a career in the midwest. So tell us yourself. Well, thank you. And thanks to everyone here in g
Innovation process being really important. It is a great challenge. A lot of information together. I really enjoy the opportunity to learn. Animation is happening in the marketplace. My job is complete. When i think about headphones. I look at satellite products and different video products. So many different items that we had before. I get to learn a number of different products. That may not involve us today but in may involve us in the future. Monday night on cspan2. Next, John Mckee Barr talks about loathing lincoln an american tradition from the civil war to the present. He says in order to understand why lincoln is revered, it is important to understand the criticisms of his detractors. The Lincoln Group of the District Of Columbia hosted this one hour 20 minute event. Good evening. I am former Vice President of the Lincoln Group in the District Of Columbia. It is my honor and privilege to invite tonights speaker, John Mckee Barr, a professor of history at Lone Star College kingw
Loathing lincoln is his first book, and he has started a blog. He updates weekly. I highly recommend it. It is very lively. It is loathinglincoln. Com. I highly recommend that to all of you. The book has received a lot of good attention, a lot of praise. I want to read you a couple summaries of what the book must be about. One is by our old friend marco. He said, paradoxically americas most revered president has also been its most reviled. As John Mckee Barr shows in his meticulous survey, detractors of the rail splitter have been a variegated crowd of strange bedfellows. Libertarians, neoconservatives white supremacists, black panthers. States rights advocates, and antiimperialist, among others. The arguments that have overlooked the confederacys central aim the right to own, exploit, and rape africanamericans and their descendents forever. Here is another comment i find particularly amusing, from an unnamed critic. From bitter, defeated critics after appomattox, and academics in our
He says in order to understand why lincoln is revered it is important to understand the criticisms of his detractors. The Lincoln Group of the District Of Columbia hosted this one hour 20 minute event. Good evening. I am former Vice President of the Lincoln Group and the District Of Columbia. It is my honor and privilege to invite tonights speaker, john mckee barr, a professor of history at Lone Star College kingwood, for the past seven years, teaching a class on darwin and lincoln, who were born on the same day. Before that, he was a High School Teacher in the Houston Public School system. That is good preparation for the kind of flack he has to put up now at it. This is his first book, and he has started a blog. I highly recommend it. It is very lively. It is loathinglincoln. Com. The book has received a lot of praise. I want to read you a couple summaries. Paradoxically, americas most revered president has also been its most reviled. Detractors of the rail splitter have been a crowd