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Bring something new to it. You are in for a treat. Now, as a narrative historian rather than a art historian or art history professor, what i do is write books. In order to do that, i look at the topography of the past and i try to identify fault lines that other people have not seen. This book is a case in point. Eight years ago, i had a conversation with my editor. I just finished a book about Thomas Jefferson and the early days of architecture. She said to me what to do you want to do next . ...

40s across the map a cute couple spots will be doing ok as the head out the door this morning you will not have the one of the kids so tightly this is what the weather is one to be like as we work our way through the date the Morning Hours ride around 7 00 were looking for low clouds it will be a little cool as the will know for is an upper 30s in the mix not much has changed by noontime to libraries in the air will get things up to much arise whether quickly of the fifties to low 60s and my thr...

Hi. So when i think about empowered women, i also am curious about their relationship to their fathers growing up. So you talked a little wit a little bit about their childhood, so im curious to know what was the relationship with each woman with her father. Certainly for Elizabeth Gurley flynn, her father, tom none, was a very flynn, was a very important figure in her life. And she he was a very strong socialist, and actually the whole family converted to socialism in 1902. And in that way i th...

And ready to go, so let me ask you to start things off. All right, thank you michael. Do we have five hours . [laughter] i want to take this paragraph or two and pull it apart. One of the wonderful things about writing a book about the great gatsby is that i can purchase assume pretty much assume, as i think andrew can that were speaking to an audience who has read the novel at least at some point in their lives. So im going to read from the first chapter where nick decides to go visit his cousi...

Announcer 2 up next, mark webber, the complete history of residential drinking. He talks about the drinking habits of u. S. President s and how it shaped relations in u. S. Decisionmaking. Franken roosevelt Franken Roosevelt drank martinis and a coat closet to hide it from his mother. This is one hour. Mark i would like to welcome you to the mcgowan theater and washington, d. C. I would like to thank all of you for coming out today after the snow we had yesterday. I hope you deny can cabin fever...

Sticky may or may not be able to hear me. [laughter] hello. Thank you for joining us on behalf of the bookstore i am delighted to invite you to tonights event with beth shapiro and her book how to clone a mammoth this is one of the events were hosting this spring. This fridays David Roberts will join us with his new book the lost world of the old ones. And tickets are Still Available from david mccullough. To learn more about our grievance pickup eight cuppy a copy of the door this evening after...

He joins the board of Bob Jones University and he does it to win votes. Bob jones had just moved his university. And thurman needed those votes. He lost in 1958 to the senate. That began a long relationship with a conservative and fundamentalist and evangelical persons who are looking to get involved in the process. We need to understand the racial politics in the midst of these conservative issues that he was very involved with. To see how they intersect with one another. I think in doing so, i...

President ial faith, and thats not just because im intrigued with how people might believe theologically, its because i think weve come to the conclusion, i think weve come to understand that religion forms the world view out of which an executive leader leads, the decisions they make, what they choose, what they believe about the middle east, what they believe about morality, what they believe about everything from is sex to education to family to foreign policy. So i dont think this is just a ...

Adventures in yellowstone has people who had high adventures hunting bears during countering indians are following geysers or maybe maybe they had humors things happen to them like chasing a bear away from their campfire. That is kind of the story of the adventures in yellowstone. A is. It is because i think that religion is the way the executive leader leads a and the decisions of the middle east from Sex Education to foreign policy. But with a little side steady i think were realizing increasi...

Yep, today it became clear that all the nice things weve been hearing act the deal on thursday had nothing to do with the rally becausesant tiding was all in the senate. Theyre just scared. Not the senate. The senate is scared, the house isnt. The house of representatives as we keep discovering is a horse of a different color. From the very beginning you never expected the senate to reject a debt ceiling increase and not just because its controlled by a democrats. There are enough republican sen...