The fantastic conversation were all going have with our finalists tonight and. I know were here to hear them talk. Im going to be as brief as possible and, introducing them so we can turn it over to them. And many of them dont really need. A introduction. We have with us stacy shift who written countless biographies. Cleopatra, benjamin franklin, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and a George Washington book prize winner. And i know im probably skipping a couple of biographies in there as well. Fred kaplan, who has also written an enormous number of biographies, i couldnt believe it. I mean ive familiar with several of them, and i kept looking for your list. And i couldnt believe i mean, mark twain, charles dickens, henry james, abraham lincoln, John Quincy Adams, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. I mean, missing a lot of people, too, arent i. Well. I have to confess. Im not missing them anymore. For right. And he is. And here tonight to talk about Thomas Jefferson, whos he has recently writte
The fantastic conversation were all going have with our finalists tonight and. I know were here to hear them talk. Im going to be as brief as possible and, introducing them so we can turn it over to them. And many of them dont really need. A introduction. We have with us stacy shift who written countless biographies. Cleopatra, benjamin franklin, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and a George Washington book prize winner. And i know im probably skipping a couple of biographies in there as well. Fred kaplan, who has also written an enormous number of biographies, i couldnt believe it. I mean ive familiar with several of them, and i kept looking for your list. And i couldnt believe i mean, mark twain, charles dickens, henry james, abraham lincoln, John Quincy Adams, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. I mean, missing a lot of people, too, arent i. Well. I have to confess. Im not missing them anymore. For right. And he is. And here tonight to talk about Thomas Jefferson, whos he has recently writte
And many of them dont really need. A introduction. We have with us stacy shift who written countless biographies. Cleopatra, benjamin franklin, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and a George Washington book prize winner. And i know im probably skipping a couple of biographies in there as well. Fred kaplan, who has also written an enormous number of biographies, i couldnt believe it. I mean ive familiar with several of them, and i kept looking for your list. And i couldnt believe i mean, mark twain, charles dickens, henry james, abraham lincoln, John Quincy Adams, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. I mean, missing a lot of people, too, arent i. Well. I have to confess. Im not missing them anymore. For right. And he is. And here tonight to talk about Thomas Jefferson, whos he has recently written and is a finalist. Mary sarah builder, whos a professor of law, boston college, and one of the leading thinkers on the constitution, who wrote a bancroft prizewinning book on James Madison in the constit
And many of them dont really need. A introduction. We have with us stacy shift who written countless biographies. Cleopatra, benjamin franklin, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and a George Washington book prize winner. And i know im probably skipping a couple of biographies in there as well. Fred kaplan, who has also written an enormous number of biographies, i couldnt believe it. I mean ive familiar with several of them, and i kept looking for your list. And i couldnt believe i mean, mark twain, charles dickens, henry james, abraham lincoln, John Quincy Adams, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. I mean, missing a lot of people, too, arent i. Well. I have to confess. Im not missing them anymore. For right. And he is. And here tonight to talk about Thomas Jefferson, whos he has recently written and is a finalist. Mary sarah builder, whos a professor of law, boston college, and one of the leading thinkers on the constitution, who wrote a bancroft prizewinning book on James Madison in the constit
The Second World War and later on in his career as a secret service agent. He was responsible for transferring some of americas most priceless documents, declaration of independence, constitution, gettysburg address to fort knox in the aftermath of pearl harbor. So this date was to summer 26, 1941, the day after americas pearl harbor crisis. Mr. Lamb how did he get involved and why did they go to fort knox . Mr. Puleo the secret service gets involved when the library of Congress Needs help. He is kind of responsible for these documents and he wants the Top Law Enforcement Agency in the country at the time, the secret service to help him. Fort knox was chosen because it was americas most impenetrable location. It was the gold union depository, had been open several years prior with a lot of gold already transferred. And a so the secretary of the treasury gave permission to use a portion of the depository for these documents. Mr. Lamb which documents . Mr. Puleo the declaration of indepe