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Should be is we have been talking with all her to third armstrong. This is booktv on cspan2 in london. For more information on these and other interviews from london, visit booktv. Org and watch the tv every sunday at 6 p. M. Over the next several weeks for more. 2013 marks booktv blank fifth anniversary which debuted on september 12, 1998. In april of 2011, sarah vowell examined the organization of hawaii that began with the arrival of new england missionaries in 1820. The author recounts the coup organized by the missionaries that proposed the last hawaiian clean in 1893 and resulted in the annexation of the islands by the United States in 1898. How white he was named the 50th state on august 2021, 1959. I know you just have microphones everywhere here. [laughter] im going to read for a little bit and then take questions, just like every other reading that youve ever been to. [laughter] why is there a glop of macaroni salad next ....
It is published only a week ago and it feels like a little kickoff of what is going to be a number of talks that i will be doing here and there. This is the first one. A chance to try it out on all of you what i might hope to be doing later on as well. I will find out what works and doesnt work when i talk here tonight. Let me just say that my plan for this presentation has 23 different parts. I will start by saying a little bit about how i got on to this project in the first place and something about the process of working with it for a good number of years. Then i will move to a thumbnail, 1520 minute thumbnail of the story that lies at the heart of the book, and then i will do a little reading from the book, a certain passage or two from the book to give you a sense of flavor of what is in between the covers, and maybe at the very end i will say a little bit about what drew me to the project and while i think it was worth spending a few years working on and it might be worth reading ....
Then ill do a little reading from the book, a certain passage or two from the book to give you a sense of the flavor of whats between these coffers. And covers, and maybe at the very end ill say a little bit about what drew me to the project in the first place and why i think it was worth spending quite a few years working on. It might even be worth reading a book about. How i got to the project. It was by total chance, serendipity. I have an old friend who has a house in the town of cornwall not too far from here, and one day in the mid 90s this was quite a while back my friend invited my wife and myself down for dinner. And as i recall it, we were standing around in the it was a summer evening, we were standing around outside with gin and tonics in our hands, i think, and one of the neighbors who was also a dinner guest started to tell us a little, what he called a piece of local history. He said, you know, its just a piece of local history, but im a history guy, so maybe i would be ....