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Away in maine as i read and write. I dont have the opportunity to political in current and military things. But i have written biographies about Thomas Carlyle and Charles Dickens and henry james and mark twain. Somehow i got directed more towards some history and the interconnection between literature and politics in recent years. The figure that brought me there was our wonderful 16th president , Abraham Lincoln. My most recent book prior to John Quincy Adams american was lincoln, the biography of a writer. Me that lincoln was not only an extra ordinary politician and a deeply humane and bea...

Environment. This is just under an hour. It is all downhill from there. My lawyer will take any complaints later. Thank you so much and thank you for what you all do here. I have shopped here as a young Washington Monthly editor, shopped is too strong. We didnt have any money but you all may remember Washington Monthly editors were paid 10,000 a year which kate whoohoo won the National Book award last night and adding to her amazing list of accomplishments, she used to say she actually graduated from the monthly when she could buy on tra appetizers in restaurants. I am a southerner, i am from ...

It is published only a week ago and it feels like a little kickoff of what is going to be a number of talks that i will be doing here and there. This is the first one. A chance to try it out on all of you what i might hope to be doing later on as well. I will find out what works and doesnt work when i talk here tonight. Let me just say that my plan for this presentation has 23 different parts. I will start by saying a little bit about how i got on to this project in the first place and something about the process of working with it for a good number of years. Then i will move to a thumbnail, 1...

Then ill do a little reading from the book, a certain passage or two from the book to give you a sense of the flavor of whats between these coffers. And covers, and maybe at the very end ill say a little bit about what drew me to the project in the first place and why i think it was worth spending quite a few years working on. It might even be worth reading a book about. How i got to the project. It was by total chance, serendipity. I have an old friend who has a house in the town of cornwall not too far from here, and one day in the mid 90s this was quite a while back my friend invited my wif...

Ourselves. Its great to be here. One detail would want to correct about your biography. My career has been very diverse, but its mostly focused on literature and history. Profile, hidden so i dont have the opportunity to be engaged in current political and military things. But i have written biographies of Thomas Carlyle and of Charles Dickens and of henry james and of mark twain. Somehow i got directed more towards some history and the interconnection between literature and politics in recent years. The figure that brought me there was our wonderful 16th president , Abraham Lincoln. My most r...