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substantive day. i m so excited to introduce bill of rights by introducing you to a mac sent new interactive tool for constitution of center launched on constitution day and is now thrilled to distribute to every student in america from 1880s. i want all of you in our great c-span viewers to follow along with me as i show you this remarkable nonpartisan tool and tell you what it can do and also the perfect introduction to her first panel about the relationship between the magna carta. it is an exciting project between three great organizations. the federalist society, the american constitution society and the college board that has made this a centerpiece in ap history government exams. what they ve done with the help of our great partners is to ask the leading scholars in america from every perspective, liberal and conservative and everywhere in between to write about every clause of the constitution and what they disagree about. you can be confident when you read the ....
c-span2, with top non-fiction books and authors every weekend. booktv, television for serious readers. well, good morning. i m mike gerhardt. scholar in residence at the national constitution center. a great privilege for me to be able to do that. i normally teach at constitution law at unc chapel hill, which is not that far, at least by airplane. and it is terrific to be here today with mary bilder to talk about her terrific new book, which is called, madison s hand, revising the constitutional convention. so i m going to talk to mary for roughly an hour but, you will also have the chance to write down questions. there will be people coming through giving you a chance to jot down questions on index cards. just as a little bit of background, mary is a professor of law and distinguished solar louder, please. yes. sorry. it is also micked which, hopefully will carry throughout the room. we re here with mary sarah bilder, with her new book, madison s hand, revis ....
bit, reflect his evolving views, is it fair to think of him still as the father of the constitution? i don t know that he was the father of the constitution, but the thing i came away with was how terribly important the document is. not as an object of record but for as a way for us to understand how difficult that task was that they face. i came away from the whole project with enormous respect for how close the country was too falling apart, and a much different people with different opinions struggle to try and hold it together, how remarkable the document was that was written in philadelphia, but how different it looked to them that it looks to us. as i say, this is not the document base of what they re writing. the fact end up on playing cards would be a great surprise to all of them. let me make it a couple things about the building. we have a place where you will see a life-size models of the framers. so you will see how short james madison was, which may be ....
intrensic value column. he has written several books including origins of the crash, the end of wall street and tonight s topic of discussion: america s bank he let me know there is a great review of it coming out in the washington post tomorrow so we can read about that tomorrow. he has three children and lives with his wife in newton, massachusetts. please join me in welcoming roger lowenstein. [applause] debra, thanks very much. a wonderful introduction. i am glad i don t have to talk about dinosaurs. i don t know much about that. what i m going to do is mostly talk to you and read you passages as well that i mope high pressure c hope conveys the drama of the story. this was my first history story. it was the most exciting project i have been in. the people i wrote about reminded me of people on the scene and the book is full of stories. last night, anyone who saw the republican debate, you saw rand paul came out against the federal reserve and tasaid ther is n ....
ii business documents are about the vatican bank and the bishop of miami lobby on my behalf for access and a bishop in washington, lobbied on my behalf but the bishop who runs the vatican archive said no. that forced me to do with the old-fashioned way. and did business with the vatican bank. and alliance, go into their files and private archives, pull of the transactions that have been done with rome 50 or 60 or 70, and called on the pope since publication of this book in los angeles times out that in march, ask for the pope to release bank s world war ii files and what files of the wartime pope, there was no response. when he came to america the washington post editorial said the same thing and there was no response which i am hopeful francis will not just be a reformer going back in the vatican bank history but also going forward. he can do that by releasing the bank s world war ii files. host: one of your former books, secret of the kingdom, the inside story of th ....