Well, we want to look today as what, if anything, he meant by that, how sincere he was or how well he understood his own commitment to and concept of friendship. And i have a group of very accomplished friends to explore that topic with me. Chuck strosier, who has spoken at the Lincoln Forum who brings his experience as a psychoanalyst, psychobiographer, a onetime resident of springfield. By which i mean he knows about lincolns springfield. Not that one must be a psychoanalyst to live in springfield, although we dont know. And of course as an authority which is the subject of his latest book on the complex relationship between Abraham Lincoln and his only really close friend, joshua speed. Well hear more about that in the panel. Edna green medford, a member of the forum and has written and lectured here on the subject of lincoln, emancipation, race, equality and africanamerican life and lives. We welcome her perspective as well. Another expert on lincolns illinois years is another foru
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On autobiography. The book examines the differences in writing styles between men and women in autobiographical works. This encore presentation is just under an hour. Cspan jill ker conway, author of when memory speaks reflections on autobiography, where did you get the idea for this . Guest well, i have been traveling around with my publicist from alfred knopf and giving readings from some of my earlier volumes and memoirs, and i started to explain to the audience before i read something about the genre, something about its history and where i thought my own work fitted in with it. And the audience would always get very interested and ask a lot of questions, and finally, my editor said one day, well, why dont you do a book about this . so i thought it was a wonderful idea and ii had to do a great deal of reading of 19th century memoirs that i hadnt read before in order to do the book, but i had great fun doing it. Cspan i have a copy of something youll. Guest mm. Cspan . Youll recogni