Cspan2 with top Nonfiction Book developers every weekend. But Tv Television for serious readers. Hi everyone, thank you for coming to the Tattered Cover and thank you for joining us for tonights author event. Thank you for coming out to support your local independent bookstore, we greatly appreciate it. Tonight we have dan hampton, most of you probably know hes the author of hunter killers and wards of the sky among several others. Hes a decorated pilot and a historian of, okay. A noted historian. Tonight hes going to be discussing the flight, his recounting of Charles Lindberghs famous transatlantic flight from new york to paris. So without further ado, im going to go ahead and turn it over to dan. Lets give him some big applause. [applause] i also tap dance and sing badly. Well, thank you jennifer. And michael, and the Tattered Cover crowd as well as my cspan buddies mark and steve whove done this with me several times before. Probably tired of looking at me. And its good to be back
The french and we were doing it, by the way, with the support of the church. And the church that was most involved in this was guess which one . The Presbyterian Church which was Woodrow Wilson was a member of. In fact, calvinism in general was the opposite of the anglican church. So what we have here is a argument that democracy is something that is suited only to certain peoples who have had a certain cultural history to them. Well, if thats the case, what are these cultural prerequisites . And here the more i read wilson, the more i became persuaded that there was the dog that doesnt bark x. The dog that didnt bark was calvinism. And it was particularly the covenant of the Presbyterian Church. This was the template for wilson of how democracy comes about. Now, i dont know how many of you belong to the group of churches that today can be called affiliated with presbyterians in terms of their domestic organization, but its not just churches. Its also reformed judaism and explains at l
Transformation of dictionaries or the complete transformation of lexicography in the english language. Anyone whos read the professor in the mad men, you can remember the descriptions of what it was like to assemble a dictionary in the mid 19th century. There were read arers all over readers all over the world who would submit little files, and eventually those usages, wherever the dictionary was revised which was about every 80 years, would make it into the next round. So it took an incredibly long time to update new meanings of worse. Of course, now its of words. Of course, now its online, and now you have crowd sourcing and people reporting tweets or web sites x its led to this kind of massive democratization of language in this really interesting way. Its also led the oed to have to go back and relearn whole words that, you know, with all of the newspapers online now you can discover usages that no one had ever possibly heard of the last time the dictionary was revised. So it reall
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