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Live coverage begins at 3 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. [cheering] we want willkie we want willkie we want willkie i stand before you without a single pledge or promise or understanding of any kind except for the advancement of your cause and the preservation of american democracy. [applause] as your nominee, i will have an aggressive fighting campaign. [applause] we want willkie the republicans in we want wi llkie. Wendell willkie ran for president in 1940. These are some images of him on the campaign trail. We are here with david willkie, his grandson. I want you to introduce the audience to some of the fervor. As were seeing from these Iconic Images from the 1940s campaign that surrounded your grandfather as he ran for president and tried to defeat Franklin Delano roosevelt, who was seeking a third term. What an exciting time in the country. We are entering the end of the hoo ....
Im talking just about the physicality. You can judge for the insight on your own. [laughter] but as nick said very cogently, this book covers a 30year span of American History in the middle of the 19th century when nothing much happened. [laughter] there was just, oh, i dont know, the Womens Movement and the country divided in two, and there were spiritualists and spirit rappers and p. T. Barnum all part of the same cultural moment. And then just in case you were getting bored, there was a war, a dreadful war where 750,000 people were killed, and thats probably, thats probably a figure that is not finished being revised upward. And, of course, there was the period of reconstruction that occurred in the south, and at the same time there was the settlement of the west augerred by the gold rush back in 1848 and completed with the slow and painful and very disturbing removal o ....
This is not an attempt to rewrite history, its not an attempt to fashion a legacy, it is an attempt to be a part of the historical narrative. Also Supreme Court justices. Every single justice on the court has a passion and a love for the constitution and our country thats equal to mine. Then you know that if you accept that as an operating truth, which it is, you understand that you can disagree. And nobel prize winners. That, for me, whats interesting is negotiation of a moral position. Do no harm. Love somebody. And respect yourself and do some work you respect. All of that is reduced, simplified notions. The philosophers have spent their lifetime trying to imagine what it is like to live a moral life, what morality is, what existence is, what responsibility is. We visited book fairs and festivals around the country. And booktv is live at the annual l. A. Times festival of book withs on the campus of ucla in los angeles. Theres o ....