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hour. >> good evening. my name is bill kauffman and im here to welcome you to the booktalk series. i also want to thank the federal society for cosponsoring tonights talk. tonights program features logan beirne, the author of a new book on americas first chief executive entitled "blood of tyrants: george washington and forging of the presidency." this is very much a young law school book. it began as a paper while loga...

and they analyzed it and they analyzed it and they determined that it was a deliberate erasure and there is six to eight examples as somebody who started rereading it and started and stopped and started and stopped. the national archives 10 years ago before my time better analyzed the tape and used audio forensics to try to find services some bits of sound on the edges because when you raise some thing come you couldnt get everything. sadly there is nothing on the edges. just recently ...

you that is later in the month. this is the reading for congressman lincoln the making of americas greatest president. thanks so much to c-span for hosting authors like me and let us talk about what we do, and thank you for changing hands. this is the second event we have done here. having local book stores like this is a treasure. i love spending time here, and no one is allowed to leave until every copy of the book over there is sold. so thank you for being here tonight. the book, "c...

>> and now on booktv, logan beirne examines george washingtons thoughts on politics and government during wartime. this is a little over one hour. >> good evening. im the director of the yale law library and im here to welcome you to the library booktalk sister i want to thank the founders society for cosponsoring tonights talk. tonights program features logan beirne who is the author of a new book on americas first chief executive entitled "blood of tyrants: george washington and the ...

what the founders were saying to another and understood it to mean. sure enough i kept working on it and i turned my first draft. do you remember what you said? >> i like the title. it was george versus george versus george. george washington, george the third and george w. bush. >> he did like the title, but you asked for more. so here is more. i kept on working and eventually evolved into the books we have coming out in the next couple of weeks. what really shocked me when i was doin...

>> good evening i am the director of the yale law library and im here to welcome you to the book talk series. i also want to thank the federalist society for cosponsoring tonights top. it features logan beirne the author of the new book of the book "blood of tyrants" george washington and the forging of the presidency. this began as a paper while a law student it was written under the supervision of william s. courage. after working two years in the law firm logan returned to the yale ...

in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. >> coming up, mark jacob and stephen case recall the role that philadelphia socialist peggy shippen, benedict arnolds second wife, played in the conspiracy to harm george washingtons forces. this program is just under an hour. ms. . [applause] >> with thank you for coming. im mark jacob, stephen case is to my left. and we started studying a couple years ago, steven many years ago discovered peggys story, just an underappreciated story in ...

-- [inaudible] [laughter] >> i dont remember that. i dont remember that. but its entirely -- we dont have menus football -- for every day, of course. some were found on the bodies of people. and somed were shoved in to the coat pockets on the night. but yeah. you can buy that look "last dinner on the titanic" it has a lot of. first and mid class had their main meal in midday. they had a ?awk at -- snack at night. the main mean at lunchtime and they had a tea at 4:00. that was one of th...

the hospital. it had a very useful function. all the finals have high trying out the side through which is being undertaken -- through which steam was pumped. it was designed to make the ship seem like the german buyers which were forced akers and seymour bigger and grander and so forth the but the fourth final was put to good use. it wasnt a complete dummy. nor am i. well, i think -- are we out of time? it was lovely of all these questions. maybe if you want to gather around him, he d...

in fact, she was probably the most dangerous teenage girl in american history. [laughter] and half the age of her husband. and its just, its a story that nobody really knew and in fact it was poorly understood at the time even and by the time anyone understood what the story was nobody seemed to care anymore. peggy was mrs. benedict arnold and she liked it that way. she didnt want to be anything else. she would much rather be the victimized wife of a traitor then be considered with the...