Know, distinguish gas. And over the years there have been so many very distinguishing tasks by the have to say i think no one more distinguished than our guest this evening. [applause] from the wall street journal, editor, Political Editor and reporter neil king. Yes just published this extraordinary book american ramble a walk of memory and renewal. There are copies for sale and neil will be signing the book afterwards but im sure you all can see its just, the reviews have been overwhelmingly positive to say the least so without further ado please welcome neil king and bill press. [applause] thank you marianne, a good evening, everybody. Its great to see you all. Thank you for coming this evening i want to say a big welcome first to our friends here at hill center. I dont know what number of talk of the hills this is but there always had an exciting and then morris mary ann said then tonight i also want to welcome all of our friends from cspan who are watching on cspan around the coun
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Good evening. I am Mary Ann Brownlow and this post is bill press political commentator and author. Before hill center even opened bill had an idea that he wanted toan create and host an in depth conversation with distinguished guests and overr the years there had been so many very distinguished guests that i had to say no when moore extinguished in our guest. [applause] Political Editor and reporter neil king and his extraordinary book american ramble a walk of memory and renewal and neil will sign the books afterwards. The reviews have been overwhelming to say theth least. Without further ado please welcome neil king and bill press. [applause] thank youu maryanne and good evening. Great too see you all and thank you for coming this evening. I wantt to give a big welcome to first to our friends at the hill center. I dont know what number talk on the hill that this is that they are always fun and exciting. I also want to welcome all of our friends from cspan who were watching on cspan a
Was given at the dedication of a National Cemetery for soldiers killed during the civil war battle. This hourlong talk was part of a conference hosted by the Gettysburg College civil war institute. Our first speaker to kick off our conference is martin johnson. He is an associate professor of history at university of miami in ohio, where he teaches courses on Abraham Lincoln, the civil war, and modern europe. He earned his ph. D in 1993 from brown university. He has devoted much of his career to studying the 16th president of the united states. He is also the author of a number of books. In fact his first two books are on european history. One is on the paris commune. And the other is on the triefis affairs. Very diverse intellectual interest. Unlike most of us, can only right between 1861 and 1865. Martin certainly is able to go into other fields and to succeed in doing so. In 2014, martin earned the distinguished lincoln prize, lincoln prize as many of you know, is sponsored by Getty
Was given at the dedication of a National Cemetery for soldiers killed during the civil war battle. This hourlong talk was part of a conference hosted by the Gettysburg College civil war institute. Our first speaker to kick off our conference is martin johnson. He is an associate professor of history at university of miami in ohio, where he teaches courses on Abraham Lincoln, the civil war, and modern europe. He earned his ph. D in 1993 from brown university. He has devoted much of his career to studying the 16th president of the united states. He is also the author of a number of books. In fact his first two books are on european history. One is on the paris commune. And the other is on the triefis affairs. Very diverse intellectual interest. Unlike most of us, can only right between 1861 and 1865. Martin certainly is able to go into other fields and to succeed in doing so. In 2014, martin earned the distinguished lincoln prize, lincoln prize as many of you know, is sponsored by Getty