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Tonight at the Kansas City Public Library is really honored to have the author of three of the best american biographies of the last 20 or 30 years to kind of collect important that t t. J. Stiles has given us of the mid19th century. First his book about jesse james which he helped us understand fictional creation of the legends, elegant initial credit by the kansas city star. That would of course never happened today. [laughter] its about the civil war of course but its also about a Great American theatrical tradition, decoration of celebrities in public life. That would never happen again today. He has such great moments, narrative moments. Jesse james robbing a train near saint louis and issuing what in essence is the First Press Release by a bank robber. May be the First Press Release, bank robber and railroad robber. He makes you understand the dynamics. One of the three books i think that are necessary to understand what happened in our part of the world and also what created the
Kinds of awards. Documentaries on public television. It helps. Just things that. Why are you still doing all this . It takes 20 to 30 to do. My smart answer is, trying to figure out how to do it. The real answer is there is this worse looseness. Are you able to drive . I still farm. I was on my tractor the other day. What was your role point. Professor of agricultural education. Prior to that was a county extension agent. I moved to madison. My newspaper work. I have been freelance writing. Freelance columnist for ten years. How many polio survivors are they . Thousands. It is tricky. I have polio. Not very much. We are all going to be dead. Is there polio in the world today . Yes. Pakistan, afghanistan, nigeria. The aids foundation. You have provided guy is of dollars for free vaccinations. Unfortunately they see that is a problem. It is still there in the world. That is another reason why it is important here. Like ebola. Just because we dont have it here doesnt mean it cant come her
I am going to introduce our speaker, warren perry. He is originally from memphis, tennessee. He has a graduate degree in medieval literature and from the catholic university. His oneman play, walt whitman and the civil war. And he cowrote elvis, which received the bronze award from forward magazine in 2010. In his 12 years at the National Portrait gallery, he wrote over 200 articles for print and the web. More than 40 on the American Civil War. He received one of the secretary Research Prizes for 2013 for the Smithsonian Congress of scholars. We are very proud of him. He is founder and director of the Perry Library of theater. I would like to introduce amy bracewell, the site manager and she is going to make a few remarks and then well have warren come up here. Thank you. Thank you. I would like to thank you so much for coming out. Cedar creek and belle grove historical park was excited to partner with the smithsonian for this lecture. Thank you for agreeing to speak on this great hist
Speaker, warren perry. From memphis,ly tennessee. He has a graduate degree in medieval literature and from the catholic university. , while women walt whitman and the civil war. Elvis,cowrote office which received the bronze award from forward magazine in 2010. In his 12 years at the National Portrait gallery, he wrote over 200 articles for print and the web. More than 40 on the American Civil War. Here he received one of tims secretary Research Prizes for 2013 for the Smithsonian Congress of scholars. We are very proud of him. He is founder and director of library of perry theater. I would like to introduce amy well, the site manager and she is going to make a few remarks and then well have one come up here. Warr come up here. Thank you. E thank you. I would like to thank you so much for coming out. Creek and belle grove historical park was excited to partner with the smithsonian for this lecture. Thank you for agreeing to speak on this great history. We think it is such a perfect the