good evening, everyone, and welcome to the new york historical society. i m louis mirrer, the i m thrilled to see you this evening in our beautiful robert h. smith odd terrorism tonight. s prom give me liberty: a history of america s exceptional used i part of the distinguished speaker series and as always i d like to thank mr. swartz for his great generosity which has enabled to us bring so many fine speakers to the stage. i also want to thank all of your chairman s council members in attendance this evening and to thank you for your great support i tonights program will last an hour and it will include a question and answer session. you should have received a note card and pencil as you entered the auditorium this afternoon, this evening, and if not, my colleagues will go up and down the aisles with note cards and pencils. the note cards will be clerked later on in the program with you questions. following the program there will be a book signing in the ny history store
tonight s program is a history of america s exceptional idea is part of our eileen george speaker series. it s great generosity has allowed us to bring so many great speakers to the states i want to thank our chairman councilmembers who were in attendance this evening and thank you for your great support which enables us to do our work. tonight s program will last about one hour and it will include a question-and-answer sessionti. you should have received a note card and pencil as you enter the auditorium this afternoon this evening and if not my colleagues are going up and down the aisle with no cards. following the program there will be a book signing and are storing s copies of the book wil be available for purchase. tonight we are thrilled to welcome richard brookhiser back to the new york historical society produces senior fellow at the national review institute a senior editor at the national review and an author of numerous books including jon marshall s the man who ma
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