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that excerpts his diary his presidential diary. just take the weekend and read it and tell me no and i read the i read the excerpts from the diary and i couldn t say no. i was fascinating by the man. did you know much about him before you started in this? you know, he was a tennessee and i knew that his his grave is behind the capitol. there is no marker in nashville except plaque on the side of a dirty motel wall his old home place in columbia is preserved and i had been there many times and have been there since but i knew virtually nothing about him and and almost nothing that was good. i mean his reputation is result result of what was done. to him during his presidency over the mexican-american war left him a bad reputation reputation as warmonger and and and the attacks on him in congress in the latter latter days of his administration. reminded me a great deal of the attacks on lyndon johnson. at the end of his administration over the vietnam war similarities the ....
susan: steve inskeep, your book is titled, imperfect union: how john and jesse fremont helped cause the civil war. why did you believe the story of a 19th-century power couple would have resonance today? steve: there are so many ways it did. it is a story leading up to the civil war when the nation was very clearly divided into two political camps. we live in a politically divided time, although i don t want to imply we are headed for civil war. i don t know what we are headed toward, but there is resonance in the way we have red and blue states today. there were northern and southern states then that were fundamentally divided over this giant issue of slavery. there are other things. the 1840 s and 1850 s was a time of enormous technological and economic change. particularly in the news media. the development of the telegraph came in 1834. within a few years of the invention of the telegraph, cities east of the mississippi were connected and there was an instantaneou ....
the bulk of the lecture is going to be presenting new evidence drawn from my research and others on the antebellum political culture. i have three major areas as evidence to talk about today. tobacco culture, political friendships, and affairs of honor. like we often do in the class, we are going to start with the image on the screen. i m going to ask you to tell me what you see. this is lady washington s reception from 1861. take it in. who can point out something you see right away that strikes you? lady washington is on a platform. prof. balcerski: how high do you think she is? off the ground? like a foot. prof. balcerski: that s a good piece there. what else? everyone is dressed up fancy. prof. balcerski: like you are today. exactly. very fancy. the ladies are wearing gowns. how about a third thing? go ahead, jimmy. it looks like they are fairly close together. they may be dancing. they are all close together. prof. balcerski: very good. i should say about l ....
president? arthur called me on the phone and said you re in tennessee and james k. polk is a tennesseen. and he said i want you to do one thing. he said allen evans has done a paper back that excerpts his diary, his presidential diary. just take a weekend and read it and tell me no. and i read the excerpts from the diary and i could say no. i was fascinated about the man. did you know much about him before this? i knew his grave was behind the capitol. there is no marker in nashville except a plaque on the side of a dirty motel wall. his old home place in columbia is preserved and i ve been there many times and i ve been there since. but i knew virtually nothing about him and almost nothing that was good. result of what was done to him during his presidency over the mexican-american war left him a bad reputation. a reputation as a warmonger, and the attacks on him in congress in the latter days of his administration reminded me a great deal of the attacks on linde ....
historians. mr. poke ranked 14th in c-span s story of presidential leadership. john seeingigenthaler, autho james k. polk. how did they talk you into doing a biography of this president? he called me and said you re a tennessean, james polk was a tennessean. why don t you write a biography for the series on the presidents. i said, arthur, i don t have time. i m retired. he said i want you to do one thing. he said allen evans has done a paper back that excerpts his diary, his presidential diary. just take the weekend to read it and tell me no. i read the excerpts from the diary and i couldn t say no. i was fascinated by the man. did you know much about him before you started this? i knew he was a tennessean, i m a tennessean. i knew that his grave is behind the capitol. there is no marker in nashville except a plaque on the side of a dirty motel wall. his old home place in columbia is preserved, and i ve been there many times and have been there since. but i kn ....