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Tonight at the Kansas City Public Library is really honored to have the author of three of the best american biographies of the last 20 or 30 years to kind of collect important that t t. J. Stiles has given us of the mid19th century. First his book about jesse james which he helped us understand fictional creation of the legends, elegant initial credit by the kansas city star. That would of course never happened today. [laughter] its about the civil war of course but its also about a Great Ameri...

Im mark, president and im proud to be here with professor eddie. I am honored, as we say back home this is really great. We have some time to talk and you have written a new book and we sorely want to talk about, we also want to talk about how fascinating it is to viewers and certainly too many how you got from mississippi, a a Great Community down in the gulf coast, all the way to princeton university. Maybe we ought to start with you talking about yourself. Guest im a country boy who made it b...

Again as we go forward. The painting became as i wrote in my notes it became an engraving. Edward savage wrote about that and actually told washington he made 10,000 dollars dollars on it. I think that was almost cheeky of savage to say that he was making money on washington. But this picture and washington ordered four engravings, you can see one of them at mount vernon. Ill love to think about that when im at met mount vernon. I going to the breakfast room and there is George Washington and hi...

Isnt a lot of great books on George Washington and native american peoples, particularly one that bring out the full perspective of native american groups as well as they could, particularly reflecting the latest literature, which has been transformed in the last 30 years and more. Professor calloway has been one of the people leading the transformation in the way that american historians have come to understand the challenge of incorporating native American History into American History. He is ...

Smiled. He hes able to touch people across all religious lines. He is not just foe focused on the members of the catholic faith. A while ago i was to visit the hospital, i went to visit one of our hospitals, as i was going in through the revolving door there was a woman who was coming out, she stopped and waited, when i went through the door she said she identified the church of which she was a member and she said to me, you know, i just love this pope. I think he is doing such a great job. We c...

Smiled. He hes able to touch people across all religious lines. He is not just foe focused on the members of the catholic faith. A while ago i was to visit the hospital, i went to visit one of our hospitals, as i was going in through the revolving door there was a woman who was coming out, she stopped and waited, when i went through the door she said she identified the church of which she was a member and she said to me, you know, i just love this pope. I think he is doing such a great job. We c...

Smiled. He hes able to touch people across all religious lines. He is not just foe focused on the members of the catholic faith. A while ago i was to visit the hospital, i went to visit one of our hospitals, as i was going in through the revolving door there was a woman who was coming out, she stopped and waited, when i went through the door she said she identified the church of which she was a member and she said to me, you know, i just love this pope. I think he is doing such a great job. We c...

Smiled. He hes able to touch people across all religious lines. He is not just foe focused on the members of the catholic faith. A while ago i was to visit the hospital, i went to visit one of our hospitals, as i was going in through the revolving door there was a woman who was coming out, she stopped and waited, when i went through the door she said she identified the church of which she was a member and she said to me, you know, i just love this pope. I think he is doing such a great job. We c...

Smiled. He hes able to touch people across all religious lines. He is not just foe focused on the members of the catholic faith. A while ago i was to visit the hospital, i went to visit one of our hospitals, as i was going in through the revolving door there was a woman who was coming out, she stopped and waited, when i went through the door she said she identified the church of which she was a member and she said to me, you know, i just love this pope. I think he is doing such a great job. We c...

Smiled. He hes able to touch people across all religious lines. He is not just foe focused on the members of the catholic faith. A while ago i was to visit the hospital, i went to visit one of our hospitals, as i was going in through the revolving door there was a woman who was coming out, she stopped and waited, when i went through the door she said she identified the church of which she was a member and she said to me, you know, i just love this pope. I think he is doing such a great job. We c...