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Im a professor at Chapman University and also at Dartmouth College and here today with bob reel the author of the incredible book quest for the presidency the storied and surprising history of president ial campaigns in america from university of nebraska, press and this is one of these books that is welcoming to scholars and for armchair historians and for general readers of all sorts one of the things that we do together, one of the really only unifying things we do together. All of us as a country is a president ial election every four years. We all have a stake in those of us are voting age that is in terms of where our country is going. And it distills the destiny of the United States into a single human being and index and in essence for range of ideas. This has been a feature of this country since the presid ....
We all have a stake in those of us are voting age that is in terms of where our country is going. And it distills the destiny of the United States into a single human being and index and in essence for range of ideas. This has been a feature of this country since the presidency of George Washington and bob real has pulled together a comprehensive history of every single president ial election in one readable volume. This is the word surprising in the subtitle is not frivolous even president ial scholars, i think are going to find details in here that they havent seen before and i was proud to give a cover endorsement to this book and im really honored to be sitting here talking to to bob. Thank you for doing this job and thank you to the National Archives for hosting us. Yeah. Thanks for having me on time. Thanks fo ....
Pleasure is going to be mine. Its um, this is a book. I really encourage people to go out and get it and take a look. I cant think of a better cutting edge introduction to this fascinating and controversial thing called original plane original public meaning constitutionalism. Weve got things like a blowbyblow of the drafting of the 14th amendment we have an amazing and wonderful introduction to the growing historical literature on antislavery constitutionalism, which is so decisive from the were still today shaped by the 1840s and 50s and this is a book that helps readers. See see that and its a book and this is really what i hope we we talk about a lot here is its a book that says that nearly everything we know about some of the key sections of section 1 and section 5 of 14th amendment is all wrong, so id love to to get into some of that with with you here. Is a place i thought we might start and i hope ill be interested to see what whether you think. This is a the premise of this qu ....
This is a book i encourage people to go out and get it and take a look. I cant think of a better, cutting edge introduction to this fascinating and controversial thing called original Public Meeting constitutionalism and weve got things like blow by blow of the drafting of the 14th amendment. We have amazing and wonderful introduction to the growing historical literature on antislavery constitutionalism so decisive. Were still today shaped by the 1840s and 50s and helps leaders see that and its a book and this is really what i hope we talk about a lot here, its a book that says that nearly everything we know about some of the key sections of section one, section five and 14th amendment, is all wrong. So id love to get into some of that with you. Here is a place i thought we might start and i hope ill be interested to see whether you think this is the premise of this question is right. When i think about originalism, how many origi ....
Incredible book quest for the presidency the storied and surprising history of president ial campaigns in america from university of nebraska, press and this is one of these books that is welcoming to scholars and for armchair historians and for general readers of all sorts one of the things that we do together, one of the really only unifying things we do together. All of us as a country is a president ial election every four years. We all have a stake in those of us are voting age that is in terms of where our country is going. And it distills the destiny of the United States into a single human being and index and in essence for range of ideas. This has been a feature of this country since the presidency of George Washington and bob real has pulled together a comprehensive history of every single president ial election in one readable volume. This is the word surprising ....