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you sick. he decided to go off to what was then called the college of new jersey. what we now call princeton. this was going to have a very important effect on his political career. there was a significant distinction to be made in those days between princeton and william and mary. william and mary was not a rigorous academic environment. it was a school in which enlightenment thinking dominated. on the other hand, it was run by the colonial church of virginia. the episcopal church and if he had gone there he would have had a different kind of nurturance of his intellect and he encou...

here is author elizabeth dowling taylor talking about her book, "a slave in the white house." hertog in the library of congress is just under one hour. >> good afternoon. welcome to the library of congress. i am john kohl, the director of the center for the book in the library of congress. the center is the reading promotion arm of the library of congress. we were created in 1977 by librarian of congress daniel boorstin to help the library of congress stimulate public interest in books and reading and literacy. we operate primarily through a couple of national networks. there are sta...

barrington massachusetts. >> hello book friends, and welcome. thank so much for coming to the book loft on this fine berkshire evening. as many of you know in our nearly 40 years of business, we okies at the book loft are very proud of our staff. they represent a -- in fact we will often ask each other so what are you reading? and when told it will ask -- well maybe or not or yeah. even though hugh howard and i are best friends and have downed more than a few beers together over the years and a briton many side-by-side while skiing it doesn't necessarily f...

'em? what ideas of liberty did they bring with them? to answer them i'm going to share three quotations, and there are just a few papers out there with copies of them, but i'll read them for you. to give you an idea of the scope and the nature of the argument i'm making. the first quotation comes from the independent advertiser which is a newspaper put out by a young samuel adams in boston in the late 1740s. lot of english authorities. he often doesn't actually attribute them, he just runs articles as they tended to do. and sometimes they said these are from our great authors but did...

friends of the thomas jefferson foundation. they are both a former fellows and residents. they are known to many members of this audience and i'm delighted to welcome them back. so please join me in welcoming andrew and nancy. [applause] >> within days of taking office of the fourth president of the united states, james madison received a letter from rebecca, a well educated philadelphia and, one of the gentle folk of that city. she petitioned him to begin his administered with an act of generosity by pardoning aaron burr who was then living in exile in europe. although trained in ev...