From you in your career. Thank you. Thank you. Booktv continues now on cspan2, television for serious readers. Welcome everybody to a house divided coming to from Abraham Lincoln book shop in chicago. Thank you very much for joining us today. My name is bjorn skaptason, and i will be the administrator for todays program. I just have a little bit of information to cover before we start. First of all the book were discussing today on house divided is tecumseh and the prophet the shawnee brothers who defied a nation and author of the book is Peter Cozzens and you going to meet peter in just a moment when he gets talking with Daniel Weinberg, the host of your show. For someone to tell you something about tecumseh and the prophet. Comes to us from alfred aiken off published and we thank them from publishing the book and helping katie peter on the program with us today. The cost of the book is 35 and it can be ordered from our website. Those of you who are watching this on the live stream, o
Welcome to this session, which is a debate we think on the topic of lincoln and his generals and i am Glenn Lafantasie from Professor Emeritus from Western Kentucky University wrti and Bowling Green and we have with us this morning a distinguished panel i, i regret to say that one of our panelists took ill and lauren foote will not be joining us this morning. But shes at home recuperating fighting with many regrets that cant be here. But let me go ahead and introduce our panelists for you and you have longer biographies of these people in your packets. But i thought id go ahead and introduce people anyway. And to my immediate right is. Ken. No. He is the drawn of southern history at auburn here received his doctorate. Doctorate from, the university of illinois. His most recent book is, the howling storm, whether and the american civil war. He is currently writing about the idea and the realities of Abraham Lincoln as a commander in chief to his right Harold Holzer who all of you im sur
The point where he gives positive orders. Do what i want, but theres always tension and we see that tension not just with mcclellan, but we see it with burnside side, we see it with hooker. And although tend to gloss over it, i think we see it with grant as well. So there. Well, youve conveniently welcome to this session, which provided a segue way by mentioning grant and andy, i is a debate we think on the wonder about some of your topic of lincoln and his thoughts because youre youre working on a book project that generals and i am glenn that involves lincoln and grant. Lafantasie from professor yeah. Thank you glenn. Emeritus from western kentucky and most important i should say that this a distinct privilege to be sitting on a panel with university wrti and Bowling Green and we have with us this historians who. Morning a distinguished panel i, ive long had the great esteem for and their books have been i regret to say that one of our really formative, shaping my own thinking. So th
Welcome to this session, which is a debate we think on the topic of lincoln and his generals and i am Glenn Lafantasie from Professor Emeritus from Western Kentucky University wrti and Bowling Green and we have with us this morning a distinguished panel i, i regret to say that one of our panelists took ill and lauren foote will not be joining us this morning. But shes at home recuperating fighting with many regrets that cant be here. But let me go ahead and introduce our panelists for you and you have longer biographies of these people in your packets. But i thought id go ahead and introduce people anyway. And to my immediate right is. Ken. No. He is the drawn of southern history at auburn here received his doctorate. Doctorate from, the university of illinois. His most recent book is, the howling storm, whether and the american civil war. He is currently writing about the idea and the realities of Abraham Lincoln as a commander in chief to his right Harold Holzer who all of you im sur
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