As far away as newark, maybe farther. We are always delighted to welcome our visitors. We also want to welcome our viewers by cspan. I want to let folks in the room know that cspan is here to cover todays conversation. After doctor Alvin Felzenberg and i speak for a bit we will open the floor for q a. We will ask those who have questions to come down to the microphones that are just here. And ask your questions from the microphone. Speak right into the microphone so we can pick you up. Remember that you will be on screen as well as having your voice heard. So smile, look pretty [laughter] the Medicine Program here princeton is dedicated to providing students and members of the community with the best possible education. We believe as madison thought that only welleducated people can permanently be a free people. We want to do our part by contributing to the education of our fellow citizens. Students and others. When it comes to fundamental questions, american constitutionalism and thou
Folks, i guess we are going to start here. So, thank you so much for coming and i hope you are comfortable because im going to talk for a bit here. My name is Mark Pendergrass as a about a third of the people in the audience do because that is their name, also. They are related to me. This is the bookstore i love to come to all independent bookstore with great hearts and is also close to where the pendergrass enclave has lived for many many years. I grew up he or in atlanta. I live in vermont, now. I come back here frequently to see my mother who is right here in my father who was very much involved in my research for this book. Read most of the manuscripts and who died last year at the age of 99 and a half and i just want to dedicate this whole talk to him. He was a wonderful, wonderful, kind, generous man and i dedicate the book to him into my mother into my made, my africanamerican maid whose name was willie mae and whom i call me and i will be talking about her maybe i should talk
As far away as new york, maybe farther. And were always delighted to welcome our visitors. We also want to welcome our viewers by cspan so i want to let folks know that cspan is here to cover this afternoons conversation. After doctor felzenberg and i talked for a bit where going to open the floor to a q and a and we will ask those who have questions to come down to the microphones that are just here. And ask your question from the microphone. Speak right into the microphone so we can pick you up and remember you will be on screen as well as having your voice heard so smile, look pretty. The Madison Program at princeton is dedicated to providing our students and members of our community with the best possible civic education. We believe has madison taught that only a well educated people can be a free people so we want to do our part by contributing to the education of our fellow students and others, when it comes to fundamental questions of american constitutionalism and basic politic
And at the same time the adams camp accused Andrew Jacksons wife, but it was vicious. We think of it like politics, it was very civil. Adams it was great. It was very not very nice. Was there a particular period of her life or episode in her life or aspect of her life that you were frustrated by this horrible record about and wanted to go into more detail on . Great question. Certainly slavery is one of the things i was interested in. I know it is frustrating because i had census records and legal documents and she didnt write about that stuff. I cant talk about her attitudes in quite that way although she does talk about slavery later. There are periods she goes silent. I felt the lack of her voice in those moments but she did leave, she herself left a vibrant record, not like a lot of women at the time burn their letters because people didnt she burned this. I feel very lucky to have chosen a subject, she later said she had a mania for writing. I would like to think about that later.
Washington dc. On thursday at barnes noble in virginia, former secret Service Officer gary burns talks about what he observed about bill and Hillary Clinton protecting the first family. And we are live with bestselling author and journalist sebastian younger on indepth. He will take your questions and comments on many books including his latest on American Veterans returning to civilian life on homecoming and belonging. That is look at the programs booktv is covering this week. Many of these are open to the public. Look for them to air on cspan2. Who is Samantha Brinkman . Guest a criminal defense lawyer who left the office a couple years back in private practice, struggling to make a name for herself and bring her practice up, had a very tortured past, traumatic childhood, probably twisted at birth anyway and the combination made her someone unusual. A suggestion she ignored and frequently does. Host is there a certain breed for a defense attorney . Guest good question. I am not sure.