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Forum established an annual book prize recently named in honor of our distinguished chairman with cash award of 1,000 to honor outstanding scholarship on the life and career of our nations 16th president. Published the year preceding the of this award. Previous winners of the book prize include sidney blumenthal, james oakes, ted widmer and. Roger lowenstein. On behalf of my the book prize jury, michele crowe, kristen mcwherter and daniel weinberg, it my honor and pleasu t announce the 2023 howard holter or lincoln book prize winner edward acorn for his the lincn inside the republican convention, the changed history. ■. Not yet. Acorn presents a brilliantly written, riveting account of the 1860 republican was held in chicago during summer of that year. He recounts in comprehensive how rat, dark, stunned the political pundits of the time by defeating William Seward of new york. As overwhelming favorite for the republican nominati ....
Forum esblhed an annual book prize recently named in honor of our distinguished chairman with cash award of 1,000 to honor outstanding scholarship on the life and career of our nations 16th president. Published the year preceding aw. Previous winners of the book prize include sidney blumenthal, james oakes, ted widmer and. Roger lowenstein. On behalf of my colleagues on the book prize jury, michele crowe, kristen mcwherter and daniel weinberg, it my honor and pleasure to announce the 2023 hord holter or lincoln book prize winner edward acorn for his the lincoln miracle inside the repu the changed history. Not yet. Acornresents a brilliantly written, riveting account of the 1860 Republican Convention that was held in chicago ding summer of that year. He recounts in comprehensive how Abraham Lincoln the darkest, dark, stunned the political pundits of the time by defeati ....
You can watch this interview in its entirety along with other oral histories, cspan. Org history. Welcome to the 30 sixth annual planning board, please help me give a special thank you to all the sponsors. Before we begin. And the camera flashes. I will introduce today, in conversation proud smith with rick cogan. And with chicago great fire. And and please join me, please welcome rick hogan. You are good to come out on a hot day like this. A big part of this book, the paperback edition was just out and in the current of that addition, simply put, the best book ever written about my father who i admired tremendously wrote a book about the fire and i still say this. My brother is here. Where we have run out of things, you knew my dad. I came to chicago, just finished graduate school in yale in newhaven connecticut. What i was most interested in was history and culture in the second half of the nineteenth century. And weve got this job on northwestern. I was teaching a heavy load but in ....
As many of you know, david boaz, ive been here a long time. I want to remind you that well be taking question both from people here in the audience and from people watching online. And the online audience may the conversation and submit questions directly on the event page or on facebook or youtube web or on twitter using hashtag tag keto events and hopefully all of those questions will come directly to me on this ipad. And if you are asking question in here, please speak directly and clearly into the microphone so everybody can hear you here and online. A lot of my colleagues these days prefer to events in interview but im Old Fashioned and i think when an author has spent years becoming the worlds leading expert on a topic id rather give him a few minutes to tell us what he thinks is important about what hes discovered. So thats what going to do before we take questions and we two outstanding scholars to hear from. It would be pr ....