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We are standing in the originally 18th century portion of the Maryland State House. Its also a space which between november of 1783 and august of 1784 was a home of congress then operating under the articles of confederation. Three of the most important events in the history of the United States took place in this room in that ninemonth period between november of 1783 and august of 1784. Amazingly were standing in the third state house on this particular site. The first state house was hit by li...

The 33rd annual Chicago Tribune lit fest. A special thank you to our sponsors, todays program will be broadcast live on cspan2, book tv. If theres time at the end of the q a session with the other we ask you to use the microphone provided so viewers at home can. Before we begin please silence your phones and turn off all flashes on the cameras. And please welcome our interviewer, associate editor at the Chicago Tribune, colin mcmahon. [applause] and afternoon, thank you for coming, thank you for...

Please silence your phones. Welcome our interviewer, kolen mcmahan. Good afternoon. Thank you for coming. Thank you for coming to prisones row lit fest and im thrilled to be here today with tom ricks who as written several books. His brief books, the generals, and fiasco, which is a New York Times number one best seller. This one is also on the bestseller list, charting near i think last week for the first time. Congratulations on that. First question is bat previous book, actually. Fiasco. Give...

That is the hit, that is the adrenaline. But what begins to wear on you is where it is taken. And i think this election could be a great lesson in that controlling the culture, is not the same thing as power. Jon stewart, for the hour, next. Jon stewart, thank you for doing this. Think you for having me. Why this, why an oral history. Yes, why . Well, the title, if i did it, was taken. So we had to go with an oral history. Because because it is an oral history yes, the people who wrote and perfo...

And its influence on the American Revolution. Well start with jeffrey mod3;ajaaz the James Madison memorial fellowship foundation. Good morning, everyone. Arent you a smart looking set this morning . The topic today is religion and the American Revolution. And you recall from our last session together i laid out what i think are some head waters of early american constitutionalism. We looked at classical republicanism, primarily grecoroman. We looked at enlightenment imperialism. Then i mentione...

Under the umbrella of different federal departments. Okay. So heres our exploration of progressive era responses to the what it was understood to be the end of the frontier and if we have time well get to a massive adventure in applied history where i got to go to Harney County where the National Wildlife refuge was taken over by the bundy brothers so i get ill have a presentation on that if time permits because that was probably really the most intense experience on the ground of being in the p...

By the bundy brothers so i get ill have a presentation on that if time permits because that was probably really the most intense experience on the ground of being in the place. Community still very divided by that takeover. I hope i can get to that, as well. So, first a guessing game. This is somebody who said a lot of things that i think people have forgotten. Including me. Including me. Ive forgotten some of the things. So heres the question i guess for the sake of wider audience. Ill read it....

Okay. So heres our exploration of progressive era responses to the what it was understood to be the end of the frontier and if we have time well get to a massive adventure in applied history where i got to go to Harney County where the National Wildlife refuge was taken over by the bundy brothers so i get ill have a presentation on that if time permits because that was probably really the most intense experience on the ground of being in the place. Community still very divided by that takeover. ...

That was probably the most intense experience on the ground of being in the community, still very divided over that. I hope i can get to that as well. First a guessing game. This is somebody who said a lot of things that i think people have forgotten, including me. So who said that . Isnt it fun to be told that youre going to be tricked . Come on, suckers. Come on. Essentially. It is in your reading. You did. I said that . No. No. But in fact, it is so much something i could have said because th...

Harney county where the National Wildlife refuge was taken over by the bundy brothers so i get ill have a presentation on that if time permits because that was probably really the most intense experience on the ground of being in the place. Community still very divided by that takeover. I hope i can get to that, as well. So, first a guessing game. This is somebody who said a lot of things that i think people have forgotten. Including me. Including me. Ive forgotten some of the things. So heres t...