Last time, let me back up if you dont know what socrateses in the city is a lot of people dont know what that is first of all, thank you for rappee of your early bird dinner and hustling to the tv i know is very tough and i appreciated it i have been on cspan before a they get my humor is okay. But i want to say this is the isocrates is in the city event normally i interview someone we have tons of videos of the interviewing extraordinary people. I cannot even think of the aisle list but if you go there you will see we had clad well. We had a share, jack carter burns and allen also George Plimpton the injures sisters the smothers brothers flip wilson. Added a and castillo that was of a cameo in the rich brothers break here of this stage i have interviewed them all. Charles darwin. So we have had the eclectic gas and socrates in the city gets its name from socrates. I am greek so i can pretend anything is not worth living the only unexamined life is not worth living. It you are my frien
Welcome and happy flag day. [applause] i hope i have communicated to you how excited i am that its flag day. Does anybody read what i wrote in todays paper . I wrote an oped in the wall street journal about flag day and i will be talking about the a little bit later on. Im really excited about that. I want to talk about why that day is in for it to me kind of ties in the theme of the book actually so im not talking about the book. And introducing myself. I not going to introduce myself. I did that the last time, actually let me back up. If you dont know what socrates and the city is in a lot of people on cspan and facebook dont know what it is, i want to say thank you for wrapping up your earlybird dinner and hustling to the tv. Cspan people, i appreciate that its tough to pull yourself away Golden Corral had several soups and its very tough to pull yourself away. Ive been on cspan before, its okay, they, they get my humor, its okay. I want to say that this is a socrates and the city e
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Caribbean, and then he was sent to tasmania, and he had terrible asthma. Meagher was the great orator during the rebel times, mitchell was the great writer. So it was a onetwo punch. Mitchell would write in the newspaper, meagher would give speeches in front of thousands of people. They were very close. Mitchell finally comes to america as well, but he likes slavery. Something happens in him that he sees slavery as not a bad thing. He writes in his own newspaper that if you irishmen are coming to america looking for a start, get yourself a couple of slaves and come south. And so meagher and he, his other people, break with mitchell. Mitchell has three boys. Two of them were on the other side of that wall when the irish stormed marys heights. So there was not a technical irish brigade in the confederacy, but there certainly were irish who fought on the other side, including the very people who were the kids of his best friends. Also i have a scene in the book where they fight the irish