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With sydney blumenthal, former Senior Advisor to president bill clinton. His book is a look at the political life of Abraham Lincoln. With that, im going to throw it over to our interviewer, elizabeth taylor, the literary editor at large for the chicago tribune. [applause] hi. Thank you. Are these mics on . Great. You can hear me . Thank you so much for coming out. This is a wonderful turnout for a wonderful book, and were delighted to be here. Ive actually in this chair, year ago, talking about the first volume of Sidney Blumenthals four to be four volumes on lincoln, and im really excite it ...

How have you been . I am [inaudible conversations] leaving money to their children . A lot of them are against it. I know about warren buffett. Not that they are worried about corrupting. Through. That kicks the problem. More money a lot have more money than we can ever of course. That is the general attitude. Thank you. Thanks for your talk, i enjoyed. [inaudible conversations] i have a question. What platform is considered [inaudible conversations] if you give 10 million to harvard. Booktv is live from the chicago tribunes printers row lit first and coverage continues with sydney blumenthal,...

When he first started construction in 1938, he assumed he would leave office at the end of 1940, at the end of his second term as every president before him had. But because of the rising tensions in europe, the Democratic Party nominated him for a third term, and he was elected. So, when this library opened in june of 1941, he was still president of the United States, so this became the northern oval office. He was up here on many occasions. He entertained political leaders like Winston Churchill and one from china and he did a lot of his meetings here and did Radio Broadcasts from here. Fire...

When he first started construction in 1938, he assumed he would leave office at the end of 1940, at the end of his second term as every president before him had. But because of the rising tensions in europe, the Democratic Party nominated him for a third term, and he was elected. So, when this library opened in june of 1941, he was still president of the United States, so this became the northern oval office. He was up here on many occasions. He entertained political leaders like Winston Churchill and one from china and he did a lot of his meetings here and did Radio Broadcasts from here. Fire...

When he first started construction in 1938, he assumed he would leave office at the end of 1940, at the end of his second term as every president before him had. But because of the rising tensions in europe, the Democratic Party nominated him for a third term, and he was elected. So, when this library opened in june of 1941, he was still president of the United States, so this became the northern oval office. He was up here on many occasions. He entertained political leaders like Winston Churchill and one from china and he did a lot of his meetings here and did Radio Broadcasts from here. Fire...