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And its influence on the American Revolution. Well start with jeffrey mod3;ajaaz the James Madison memorial fellowship foundation. Good morning, everyone. Arent you a smart looking set this morning . The topic today is religion and the American Revolution. And you recall from our last session together i laid out what i think are some head waters of early american constitutionalism. We looked at classical republicanism, primarily grecoroman. We looked at enlightenment imperialism. Then i mentioned protestant christianity. And we deferred that to today. Thats where we are today. You recall this ...

He was the idea guy. So much of what he introduced to the party was like corruption but just now in the Republican Party and also permanent offense which havent been a permanent fixture of the Republican Party before that. Those are just tactical things that they introduced obviously the ideas. You are part of the the revolution and u. S. Written widely on that. Was this an extension on that . As you remember it was very much portrayed as the Ronald Reagan principles. Everybody was confident in that context that there were results to prove that. The media is a nuanced reading and he wanted to ...

Up next on booktv after words historian richard discusses polite than political career of Newt Gingrich. Hes interviewed by former virginia congressman tom davis. Host thanks for joining us. Again i former congressman tom davis. The book is citizen newt by craig shirley, an awardwinning author. He did a reagan biography, and this book on Newt Gingrich is as good as ive seen. I enjoyed the book. Its an easy read. You learn a lot not just about newt but about the history and the times i think we tend to forget. Memories are short and politics. Guest they sure are. Host you to talk about allf his...

Good morning, everyone. Arent you a smartlooking set this morning . The topic today is religion and the American Revolution. You recall from our last session together, i laid out what i think are some headwaters of early american constitutionalism. Thats what i was calling them. So we looked at classical republicanism, primarily roman, grecoroman, but primarily roman. We looked at enlightenment liberalism, primarily british, which included the common law tradition and some older things. Then i mentioned protestant christianity as the third of those headwaters that i believe feeds into early am...

[inaudible conversations] i was about to say how special this night is but you all beat me to it which is great. Welcome, my name is steve, executive director of John F Kennedy Library Foundation and on behalf of all the colleagues in the library, we are thrilled you can be here. All of our forums are great but tonight is really a treat because the speakers who are here, its also the beginning of the John F Kennedy centennial weekend and we planned this months ago and we literally thought who would be the best pair above speaker and moderator we could get for this historic time and this is wha...