Count 1191 books in. On Abraham Lincoln. More than john Kennedy Franklin roosevelt and Robert Kennedy combined. Guest i knew i wanted to live with him and i had to have a leap of faith that i could find something that would be my own way into it but the last one on Eleanor Franklin took six years longer than world war ii so i knew this would be a fundamental. He turned out to be the best companion i could imagine. Host how did you begin the process class guest at first i read. I hope its beginning to do a book about marriage the way ive done with eleanor and franklin but i realized they couldnt hold the public side of the story the way eleanor did. I realized he spent more time with the members of his than with mary. He was married to them more protected tense time theyd wait for news from the battlefield and go to the front of relax at night. These are the guys im interested in when it turned out theyd been as rivals beforehand that i finally realized that got my story. Host book came
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Quarter of a century ago i came to milwaukee and blood as red about Franklin Delano roosevelt so he wanted to meet me to talk about history keand i wanted to meet him to talk about baseball so always theres been a push and pull, whats happening in baseball, whats happening in the country and weve had this great relationship. I became great friends with his family. Weve been to hall of fame games together, we went to japan for the opening day about the red sox and all this time but would tell me Amazing Stories so i was so glad when he finally decided to write this book which is a collection of the best stories because hes a great storyteller. So im so happy to be able to ask him questions that will illuminate area and we will get to the thing thats on everybodys mind which is the Houston Astros disaster in terms of what that means for baseball. This guy is always authentic, he will tell you whats happening but first id like to start with the friendship youve formed with hank aaron beca
Seelig. [applause] hello everybody well, everybody sit down, i am so happy to be here the commissioner, bud seelig. I now realize we met a quarter of a century ago. I came to milwaukee and bud had read no ordinary time about franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and he wanted to meet with me to it talk about history. I wanted to meet him to talk about baseball. So always theres been that push and pull, whats happening in baseball . Whats happening in the country . We had this great relationship. Weve been the hall of fame game together b went to japan together for the opening day. The opening day of the red sox it was a crazy trip to japan. And all this time bud would tell me these amazing stories. And so i was so glad when he decided to write this book which is a collection of the best stories because he is a great storyteller. So i am so happy to be able to ask him questions that will illuminate. We will get to thats on everybodys mind which is the Houston Astros disaster, in terms of what
Just a few. In 1849, youll like this one, a chemist named charles fries at one of the many german immigrants to arrive during that period opened what would be, one of the Largest Pharmaceutical Companies in the world. You probably know and revere his company for inventing such a surge of products of modern life as zoloft, lipitor, and let us not forget, viagra. Over the years, Companies Like pfizer employed millions of immigrants in brooklyn neighborhoods and businesses grew to accommodate them but history is to go. Brooklyns fortunes shifted in the second half of the 20th century. The factories that has sustained so Many Americans started to leave. Not for china and mexico, as is the case today, but for far less crowded and more truck friendly and reconcile birds. In 1957 when dodger owner Walter Omalley broke the heart of every redblooded brooklynite by taking the beloved baseball team, dem bums as they referred to by locals, to los angeles, in retrospect it seems to foretell the bor