By first Lady Jacqueline kennedy , dedicated to the preservation of the white house. And also educating american citizens about the white house and its diverse history. This evening, our guest is jim conroy, the author of jeffersons white house. Forwas a lawyer in boston 38 years before he began writing about american history. His previous book is lincolns white house, the peopless house in wartime, which won the prestigious lincoln prize. A you would like to ask jim question at the end of our broadcast, please type it in the comments section of the facebook feed and we will get to as many questions from our online audience as possible. Jim, welcome to white house history live. James thank you, it is a pleasure to be here. Colleen we are honored to have you. The first question in the is the setting for your book. There have been numerous books about Thomas Jefferson and about his presidency. Focus of thisque book on the white house as the s twog for jefferson terms in office. Can you t
Association is a nonprofit, Nonpartisan Organization founded by first Lady Jacqueline kennedy, dedicated to the preservation of the white house. And also educating american citizens about the white house and its diverse history. This evening, our guest is jim conroy, the author of jeffersons white house monticello on the potomac. Jim was a lawyer in boston for 38 years before he began writing about american history. His previous book is lincolns white house the peopless house in wartime, which won the prestigious lincoln prize. If you would like to ask jim a question at the end of our broadcast, please type it in the comments section of the facebook feed and we will get to as many questions from our online audience as possible. Jim, welcome to white house history live. James thank you, it is a pleasure to be here. Colleen we are honored to have you. The first question is the setting for your book. There have been numerous books about Thomas Jefferson and about his presidency. You have
So people who live there can experience what is like for the pilgrims in their traumatic journey across the atlantic in 1620. What was the last thing they saw before they got on this leaky, creaky ship . And made their way out into the treacherous atlantic, centuries ago . We are going to jump in and take a look at some of those 360s. Prof. Stone where we arent the moment, it is known as the smart key. If you move to the right you can make out the speedwell. We will leave it looking sorry for herself leaving part in the harbor, where there were ship repairs going on. The structure you are seeing now where these fine people having a chat, this is reminiscent of an old fish market, so a lot of the fish would be brought and filletted, that would be done here. Ships would be moored and delivering their fish to those who would box it up and put onto wagons or taken directly to stores outside the buildings behind us. We have tried to make it look much clearer. You can see that it is quite di
To know why the why dont you go down with the white house. So i dont know how i dont think its the fault of the clothes. Of the. Top that wanted to develop. A new number 1000001 it. May. 6 6 2 well. To so think of visionaries me Sophie Shevardnadze in times of uncertainty empathy our moral compass and altruism is our way through but how to make sure that our good intentions are not pave the road to hell i ask effective altruism evangelist professor of philosophy at Oxford University william mccaskill. William macaskill professor off the last of the at Oxford University and the cofounder of the center of for effective altruism its really great to have you with us today welcome to our show was. Great to be here thank you for inviting me on so all right so the movement here associated with this called sect of altruism i mean the very notion of this active altruism makes me wonder can altruism be in the affective or even harmful and in what cases yes i think suddenly isnt very often as ine
Thats actively harmful not just in affective but most of the time things do sentiment of good is just that the very best things we can focus our time and money on do normas them out into the world lets talk about the inefficient ways to quench my desire to do something outrageous to what i read an example in one of your interviewees a charity that for instance sends books to africa for kids to learn with but theres no teachers there so the books arent really making much difference so your money sort of waste it give me other causes that arent effective enough to be donating to if i spend money on for instance Alzheimers Research is it like money well spent is it effective. Ok so i mean Something Like funding out same as the search or funding treatment for illnesses that affects some of it just countries in the world you know these are good things to do theyre making the world better but the question is are they the most effective things you can be doing and i think generally not and th