the dangers of hyperpartisanship, excessive debt and foreign wars. this is about an hour. we are enormously fortunate today to have as our guest john avlon editor in chief of daily beast and cnn political analyst and he is here today to discuss his new book which is entitled washington s farewell the founding fathers warning to future generations which has already been praised as a fantastic contribution to our natural literature. john will be with us afterwards for a book sale and signing of his book directly following our program. so, please join me today in welcoming our wonderful guest john avlon. thank you. an honor to be here. it is a great thing to be talking about george washington. always a great thing to be talking about never enough time to talk about george. which itself tells us a lot. so, john, how did you get interested in the project and why is it of interest today to be thinking about washington s farewell address? imagine if the first found
extensive use of primary sources , have powerful narrative arcs, and contain fresh and compelling historical arguments. they also each in their own way restore women to their rightful place in the narrative on american history and help us further understand the roles of women and men in the colonial and revolutionary periods. these works are formative texts in the study of women s history as they have also inspired and expanded the schools of feminist, gender, and sexuality studies. the author of these works is one of the most significant historians of our time. mary beth norton is the professor of american history and the presidential fellow at cornell university, where she has taught since 1971. she received both her undergraduate and master s degrees from the university of michigan and earned her doctorate from harvard university. in addition to the four books cited before, she has written the british americans and edited a number of anthologies on early american history
extensive use of primary sources and contains fresh and compelling historical arguments. they each restore women to their rightful place in the narrative american history and help us further understand the roles of women and men in the colonial and revolutionary periods. textsbooks are formative in the study of women s history as they have both inspired and expanded the schools of feminist, gender, and sexuality studies. the author of these books is one of the foremost historians of our time. mary beth norton is the professor of american history and presidential fellow at cornell university, where she has taught since 1971. she received both her undergraduate and master s degrees from the university of michigan and earned her doctorate from harvard university. in addition to the four books cited before, she has written americans and edited a number of anthologies on early american history and edited a widely used textbook in 1982. in addition to being a member of the america
heavy rain from northern virginia, i thought i might start this out where to go or three guys are together. [laughter] fortunately that is not the case. one thing historians learn and all of his need to remember is that you have to keep checking your assumptions. if your assumptions are incorrect, they lead you to some very wrong conclusions. to illustrate that by the following story, which i hope you will find somewhat somewhat although risible as well. conceive unable to children and chose a surrogate father. on the day the father was to arrive, he said to his wife, i am off and the man will be here soon. baby photographer ring the doorbell, hoping to make a sale. hello, ma am no need to explain, said mrs. smith. understand. oh, really? he said, babies are my specialty. blushing, she said, where do we start? he said, leave it to me. i usually try two in the bathroom, maybe one in the living room [laughter] we try several positions and i shoot from several angles, i am s
start this out to a biblical quote where two or three are gathered together and so on. unfortunately, that is not the case. that historians learn that we need to remember is that you have to checking your assumptions. if your assumptions are incorrect, it can lead you to some very wrong conclusions. i would like to illustrate that by the following story, which i hope you will find somewhat well , rivaled as ribald as well. the smiths decided to use a surrogate father to start their family. on the data proxy father was to arrive, mr. smith kissed her goodbye and half an hour later by chance a baby photographer happened by, hoping to make a sale. good morning, ma am, i have come to no need to explain, said mr. smith, s mrs. smith, i have been spiking your. did you know that my specialty was a babies? that is what my husband and i hope. after a moment she asked where do we start? me, id leave it to usually try to in the bathtub, three and the couch, and in the living room w