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Anne freeman talks about her lifelong research on hamilton hafment. Owe she talks about how she became interested in this founding father and how she used his writings to understand what motivated him. The museum of the American Revolution hosted this talk. It is about an hour. Forgive me. I have not only grown gray, but almost blind in the service of this museum. [laughter] well, it is incredibly exciting to welcome my friend of nearly 30 years now, joanne freeman, who i got to know running the...

Can hear you. Before we begin todays program we have ask that you silence your phone. Please welcome our interviewer today alexander. [applause] thank you, thank you for coming. Not quite the afternoon yet but neither is the morning. Were talking about the times we live in. So i will take advantage of that. We have a little plan, jeremy is going to tell you a little bit about his book, so i dont support it but also hes going to read from it so you get the idea of what it is about. The book is ca...

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A couple quick things before we get started. Time to turn off your cell phones. We have cspan booktv with us today and you dont want to be the person whose phone rings on the recording. When we get to the questionandanswer period, please step up to the microphone next to the podium so they can get your question on recording. Also make sure that it is in fact a question. Normally when we finish any event, we ask you to fold up your chairs put them against a bookshelf. Please leave them where they...

Introduction that my wife and i are coming out with a book called founders advice. I know this has been done before. Secretary bennett did a number of years ago. The way he did it was considerably different than what were trying to do. I have a background was a historian but im married to a woman who was in business. She was in washington d. C. Working for a defense contractor and had the opportunity to go to seattle to work for a small start up company that had not yet gone public, microsoft. W...

Number of years ago, but it was different from what were trying to do. I have a background as ayg . Z historian, but im married to a woman who was in business. She was in washington d. C. Working for a defense contractor and had the opportunity to go to seattle to work for a small Startup Company that had not yet gone public. Microsoft. And when she started with microsoft, it was such a Small Company that they could have employee meetings in a small auditorium, a lunchroom, and she had the oppor...

The war. It was what they experienced. Marshal was a virginian. He was a bit of a backwoods virginian, but he fought in a number of the battles in new jersey. But he became part of something that was a lot bigger than virginia. And he got to know people from many different states, many different backgrounds, and it changed, it changed him and he began to think of the United States as his country. Not virginia. And he became to think of the government as the government of the United States, not t...