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with a partner traveling the same trail know what unconditional commitment means and why especially today it is the exception rather than the rule. abigail and john traveled down that trail about 200 years before us today remaned lovers and friends throughout, and together had a hand -- significant hand -- in leading the foundation of what is now the oldest enduring in public history. no small matter. and they left a written record of all of the twitches, traumas, if robins and tribula...

personal relationship as well as an extent the discourse on the politics of their time. joseph ellis discusses his books in washington, d.c. the program is just over 45 minutes. >> im not going to read to you. im going to read a few passages. im going to talk about for like 25 minutes and then have questions. everybody is busy. got complicated lives. and then well do signing and get out of here. and this was the most enjoyable book i have ever written to write. i had fun -- its not the...

minutes. >> im not going to read to you -- im going to read a few passages, but ill talk like 25 minutes and have questions. everybody is busy, got compensated lives, and then we will do a signing and get out of here. this was the most enjoyable book i have ever written to right. i had fun is not the right word, but fulfillment and trying to write this book in a way that hadnt been true for the other eight before it ate, that sounds like a lot, and i think its partly because ive never ...

the relationships you had with people. -- he had with people. first up, tom paine. >> tom paine at first was a great admirer of washington, actually traveled with the continental army, later became a very scathing critic of washington. he ended up saying washington is treacherous in private friendship and hypocrite in his public life, ended up publishing this very vitriolic open letter to washington. what happened was that tom paine, during the french revolution, was imprisoned and h...

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>> well, i start the book with gilbert stuart painting him for one reason. it became the iconic image of washington. and stuart who was a genius as an artist was essentially in the same business as i am in terms of trying to penetrate the mystery of george washington. and itches fascinated by his tourts but i was fascinated by his comments on washington because he spied another washington lurking behind that very kind of reserved facade. he saw a man with a tremendous force of persona...

nearly derailed the project. and then you go on to thank people. what happened? >> i broke my ankle. i slipped on the top step of the stoop of my brownstone and smashed my ankle. it may have been providential because it forced me to slow down. for three months, i could do nothing but read, so i did additional research and then when i returned to the book, i found that i had a kind of sharpness or clarity. not to mention energy that i might otherwise not have had. there was a silver lin...

in his career spans about a half century. he has authored more than 40 books, fiction as well as non-fiction. he is to me and to many americans americas greatest storyteller in history. he has been enormously successful. the winner of major awards for his books and for his lifetime devotion to american history. .. >> you have produced over the years and novels such as liberty tavern that came down 1977 just to remind you of fabric of the difficulties in the book of life during the amer...

officers wives is what we will be for the owes of -- rest of our lives. the lives of four founding fathers. the intimate lives of our founding fathers. this book has just been push in the last couple of weeks. ... we are at a new level of writing about american history and history in general. we are all the products of bar association. those individuals who have made our history and consequently have reached a level of interest as a historical character for bucks must be researched and...

wrote and the title is, what i think about when im running. im not a runner, but its about whats going through his mind in all of that. its nonfiction. i always try to have a nonfiction and a fiction thing going on at the same time. .. leggitt introduction. his career spans about a half century. he has authored more than 40 books, fiction as well as non-fiction. he is to me and many americans americas greatest storyteller particularly of history. hes been enormously successful. the win...