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>> good evening i am the director of the yale law library and i'm here to welcome you to the book talk series. i also want to thank the federalist society for cosponsoring tonight's top. it features logan beirne the author of the new book of the book "blood of tyrants" george washington and the forging of the presidency. this began as a paper while a law student it was written under the supervision of william s. courage. after working two years in the law firm logan returned to the yale law school in 2010 as a scholar and began to turn the paper into the book that you see tonight app...

in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. >> coming up, mark jacob and stephen case recall the role that philadelphia socialist peggy shippen, benedict arnold's second wife, played in the conspiracy to harm george washington's forces. this program is just under an hour. ms. . [applause] >> with thank you for coming. i'm mark jacob, stephen case is to my left. and we started studying a couple years ago, steven many years ago discovered peggy's story, just an underappreciated story in american history. in fact, she was probably the most dangerous teenage girl in american history....

-- [inaudible] [laughter] >> i don't remember that. i don't remember that. but it's entirely -- we don't have menus football -- for every day, of course. some were found on the bodies of people. and somed were shoved in to the coat pockets on the night. but yeah. you can buy that look "last dinner on the titanic" it has a lot of. first and mid class had their main meal in midday. they had a ?awk at -- snack at night. the main mean at lunchtime and they had a tea at 4:00. that was one of the class differences evidenced by the food. yes? >> [inaudible] >> the first funnel, yes. >> yes....

the hospital. it had a very useful function. all the finals have high trying out the side through which is being undertaken -- through which steam was pumped. it was designed to make the ship seem like the german buyers which were forced akers and seymour bigger and grander and so forth the but the fourth final was put to good use. it wasn't a complete dummy. nor am i. well, i think -- are we out of time? it was lovely of all these questions. maybe if you want to gather around him, he don't have to buy books but i will be signing them and i will answer more questions and chat with y'...

in fact, she was probably the most dangerous teenage girl in american history. [laughter] and half the age of her husband. and it's just, it's a story that nobody really knew and in fact it was poorly understood at the time even and by the time anyone understood what the story was nobody seemed to care anymore. peggy was mrs. benedict arnold and she liked it that way. she didn't want to be anything else. she would much rather be the victimized wife of a traitor then be considered with the real truth is, which is a co-conspirator to try to bring down the american revolution. who had f...