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Live from the harlem book fair with author interviews and panel discussions. At the beginning of september, we are live from the Nations Capital for the National Book festival, celebrating its 15th year. Coming up next on American History tv author peter hans on michael talks about john hanson. Mr. Michaels book is titled remembering john hanson. This program was hosted by the treaty of paris center in annapolis, maryland. I want to welcome you to the historic and of annapolis. I am the general manager of the hotel. The lady next to me is named peg. She has been our innkeeper for years and helps me run the property for events like this. I want to welcome you to another treaty of paris center event. It represents the art mission between the Historic Inns of annapoli ....
Certainly is. I am talking about a master of a mountain which had just come out in paperback. And that dont think i can do any better than to quote my colleague, jonathan yardley, who placed the book on his best books of 2012 list, so here is his castle description of the book and the controversy that it set off. A fine book that fits no precise category, master of the mountain , Thomas Jefferson and his lifes. The devastating picture of the slavocracy maintained by the author of the declaration of independence of his plantations at monticello and elsewhere. The complexities of race in america have preoccupied when sec for years and have now produced three exceptional books. The others by the harrison, an American Family in black and white, and an imperfect god, George Washington, his slaves, and the creation of am ....
Stay and answer additional questions or whatever you want to talk about. The life in the whit war of 18t for two and a half years. We dont call world war ii the war of 1941 to we dont call the civil war the world 1861 but we call it the war of 1812. Folks that support it and feel it was a positive thing called americas second war for independence. I think it was that. Its detractors call it an unnecessary war come and they think it was unnecessary. Thankfully we havent had an unnecessary war since then, right . [laughter] i call it the unknown war because no one does anything about it. My favorite president harry truman was characteristically blunt on the war of 1812 treaty, he called it the silliest damn war we ever fought. And they think it was that, too. It was a war that had we won, candidate would have been a state. And possibly we would have had a huge slave colony in mexico, maybe even cuba. Had we lost the war of 1812, we wouldve become once again a colony of britain. But after ....