Jefferson traveling through europe with the most perplexing founding father. Joining us today from fairfax, virginia where he lives with his wife and children and in his words. They lived quite a peaceful life there before deciding to follow thomass jeffersons travel advice across europe, so he is going to tell you a little bit more about the book and we are so thrilled to have him here derek baxter everybody. Great. Well, thank you. Thank you scuppernong and and cspan. Thank you everybody for watching. So. So yes, this book is about its about me following jeffersons travels across europe and its really it was a chance to learn about a different side of jefferson that we dont often hear about we all know about the younger jefferson who wrote the declaration of independence at the age of 33, and we probably know something about jefferson as an older man when he was president , but this gave me a chance to explore this different side of jefferson. It was in his when he was middle age in
Their career doing manual labor jobs, doing Service Industry jobs. This is one thing that really hasnt changed you know ,com,com ma lots of different aspects of the clinical. Broadcast Television Cable news the rise in Canada Center collections big money in politics and client unions, while all of this is happening one of the constants during the last 100 years or so is that workingclass people are not getting elected to political office. Historian john ferling examines the repertory between Thomas Jefferson alexander hamilton. This program from a History Center is just over an hour. [applause] hello everybody and i want to thank the atlanta History Center for inviting me in and providing much nicer weather for me than six years ago when i came in and my wife carol and i were driving in that day. We looked at the monitor on the dashboard of the car and it was 103 degrees as they came in. Its much nicer tonight. I want to thank you for coming out and especially on a night when my Pittsb
Conservative commentators to expose what he calls the deep Historical Files in their use of americas founding history. Its about an hour. Welcome to after words. Guest thank you very much. Host were here to talk about your book thats not what they meant reclaiming the Founding Fathers from americas rightwing. How have they claimed the Founding Fathers . Guest i think the Founding Fathers are probably one of the in america and we all claim them for a lot of different points. In the current historical moment the right wing has done two things, and i found a little bit disturbing fourth. They found a single entity, the sort of high of mind founding father candidates attributed a whole lot of things one or two people during the founding generation believed during this collective mind and used it to further shutdown the debate to try to say this is what our founders believe, certain opinions are illegitimate and cannot be entertained and have used that founding mess, and i think it is a lit
Collective hive and used to try to shut it down and saying this is what our founders believe, certain points are ill legit midand cannot be entertained, and have used that founding myth, and its very predictable people are going to use whatever is rhetorically powerful to back their arguments, but the collectivization of the mind of americas Founding Fathers is particularly dangerous because, as i say so often in the book, they were not a collective unit, and presenting them as such tends to dramatically oversimply identify the politics of the founding generation. Then it comes to be used as a big battering ram to beat people over the head with in ways i think are historically incorrect and rhetorically unsound. Host who in americas right wing are we talking about . Sunny started with glen beck. I determined i was going to write this book about 15 minutes after i ran into glen becks translation of the federalist papers, the original argument, and it was in our supermarket, our krogers,
Examines the inner workings of the Continental Congress and Continental Army and britains fifth political and military reaction to the start of the war. This is about one hour. [applause] thank you for that gracious introduction and thank you, all, for making it out on a not so pleasant evening, whether one is at least. I was supposed to be here a couple of years ago and i think i had a hip operation and it knocked me out and ive always regretted that i missed this, so im back here to sort of makeup. I want to talk about the book i just have written and so this is a thinly disguised Propaganda Campaign to get you to purchase this undoubtably magisterial book. [laughter] called revolutionary summer. But i dont feel comfortable just talking about my own wares, so there will be the last time that we actually mention the book per say, except to say that its a great beach reading [laughter] its really short and that all the royalties from the book will go directly to the Alexander Ellis sch