Institution, he has spoken here on a number of occasions. Most of you know dr. James mcpherson is the henry davis 86 professor at Princeton University where he has taught history for more than four decades. Here earned his phd at Johns Hopkins university where he studied under the great woodward. Mcpherson is a twotime winner of the which he earned in 1997. And for his 2008 effort, Abraham Lincoln as commanderinchief. His most recent books which we have in the back is the war that forged a nation. Why the civil war still matters. Today, this evening, will be focusing on battle cry of freedom. It was published in 1988. 900 pages long, complete with 1500 footnotes. But that did not scare away popular audiences at all. It sold more than 600,000 copies. Are we close to 700,000 now . About. Must have a ton of twitter followers. [laughter] if i do i am not aware of it. [laughter] how about facebook . No. Im not aware of that either. We can set you up after this. [laughter] battle cry of free
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And my view is we need to take transformational reform to solve the too big to fail issue so we never have to ask taxpayers to do that again. Rose and they became vulnerable and could have failed in not rescued because they made such bad bets on subprime. Correct. We had a nationwide housing downturn that none of us predicted. And the banks disn see it either. The regulators didnt see it. And then they ran into trouble. Rose we continue with al hunt on the story with Governor Terry mcauliffe of virginia. You look at how many the democrats start out with and how many the republicans. We have a huge lead in the Electoral College. How do you grow that ledge torral college . Youve got to go to states of new mexico and colorado an nevada with large hispanic populations. They have watched this Republican Debate in the attacks on the hispanic community, on the immigrant community, whatever it may be. This is such a turnoff. And we generally get, you know n this mid 60s percent of the hispanic
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