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Up next, Laura Auricchio recounts the life of marquis de lafayette and wil the role he played in the american and french revolutions. This is about one hour. Okay. Im tim marshall, provost of the new school and im delighted to welcome everyone here for this wonderful event to launch Laura Auricchios new book which is right here. [applause] the Marquis Lafayette reconsidered which came out this month published by this has been research over the course of seven years its a major biography that dont into the personal life of the passionate french hero of the American Revolution over several tumul...

Was from an 18th century english poet. It was an ode, and the last two lines were, a rage for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than not be named at all. and i realized that from a small girl, she had realized she wanted to be famous. So i thought that rage for fame is just a perfect title because her whole life after that was to that end. Cspan when was this picture taken . Guest that picture was taken about 1942, just after shed been elected to congress by the famous canadian photographer koschjoseph kosch. Cspan how old was she here . Guest she was only about 39. Cspan and...

Can tell us something about the city in which we live. Most of us passed through the strict of columbia daily and get lost in our routines. Many of us do not even take the time to perhaps look at the capitol zone and appreciate what it is as we have a chance to pass by it. Some things, of course, are missing. The baltimore and Potomac Railroad station, for example. They must location. Those who know the history of d. C. Know that is where president garfield was shot. We know where ford the writer is, but you never see anything about the garfield assassination. Thats because you have to go thro...

The barriers which were put up are no longer effective. It is an experiment. A lot of political scientists it is not clear there is evidence it is going to have much of an effect, at least not yet. I think we need a couple of elections to find that out. Thank you. [applause] are watching american his pretv. All weekend, every weekend, on cspan three. To join the conversation, like us on facebook at cspan history. Next, we will hear from a panel about the personal and political consequences of Warren Hardings love affair. Surviving love letters detailing the relationship were until very recentl...

And then the book on Warren Harding, published in 2009. We also have karen who is an archivist, who prepared the harding papers for reader use on july 29. She graduated from brown. Excellent historian and a firstrate person. We have dr. Richard harding, the grandnephew of president harding. He was the president of the American Psychiatric association. I shouldnt make that mistake. I dont need to apologize for that. Very brief description of the harding papers, which is probably unnecessary, given the publicity they have received. But there are about 1,000 the papers. They are approximately 1,0...