Wonderful panel that we have. Im just going to be making a personal introduction and very shortly turning it over to my colleague. Tom mann who is a senior fellow in governance studies and then of course needs no introduction to all of you but of course Julia Gillard australias first Prime Minister and e. J. Dionne. First female Prime Minister. [laughter] thank you. She really looks great, doesnt she . The first female Prime Minister. [laughter] and then the e. J. Dionne. The laughter covered up your intrae. J. Senior fellow for government studies. We are going to and note lots of people in the audience but just two people. Welcome to ambassador kim beazley who is also the former leader of the labour party and tonya who is currently the deputy of the leader Party Labour Party and shadow foreign minister so welcome to all of you. Its my pleasure to introduce the session the likes of an australian Prime Minister, first female Prime Minister. I am now going to be haunted by that julia. Ju
Pathbreaking for the institution on Alexander Hamilton, American Made modern america. We also want to recognize his receipt of the National Humanities medal to keep of course has written numerous books on revolutionary america including biographies on George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. His most recent book which was released just last week is founders son a life of Abraham Lincoln and it is already getting wonderful reviews. As always i would like to ask before invite Richard Brookhiser to the stage you make sure anything that makes noise like a cell phone is off. And now please join me in welcoming Richard Brookhiser to the stage. [applause] thank you for that i am being adjusted. They didnt need this stuff in the 19th century. They also did need to tell people to be quiet because they would be. Its always a pleasure and an honor to be at the historical society. I just want to thank a few people who are in the room. My publicist from basic, kathy nelson, basic bo
It was important to hamilton, for example. Jefferson very adamantly disagreed with burkes reading of france. He was a friend of paines, a close friend during the revolutionary years. He thought that paines great pamphlet, common sense, was extreme lu important and ought to be extremely important and helped it get distributed. He helped him get a job as the secretary to the committee on Foreign Relations of the continental congress. And he was a kind of patron of Thomas Paines in some ways. When paine came back to america after france jefferson was president. He was wary of being associateed with paines views on religion so didnt hang out with him very much. But he helped him get established, helped him get a job, and the two knew each other very well. They were friends. Sue finish. Well, the most superb. Well, the most important rule of a bill of rights book fair is that it end on time, so im afraid were going to have to skip the remaining two questions. But, ladies and gentlemen, were
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