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>> there's an obscure footnote about japan's attempt to build a naval base on the mexican coast and baja, california. i knew frapping -- franklin roosevelt and was interested in what papers he had relating to the bay. i drove over from my home in connecticut to the frapping lin d. roosevelt library in hyde park. at the time, i had no interest whatsoever in writing about fdr, himself, but sometimes things happen. the fdr library is an amazing place. you have to wonder how any one man could have livedded a life crowded with so much. hundreds of thousands of shelf feet given over to zil...

>> i had a question. so in your first book, you talk a lot about how the wealthy class of planners appealed to the yeomanry and convinced them to go to war because of their shared role as masters. so i was wondering once we get into the war and women start to turn, confederate women start to turn on the war, were there class divisions among women, or was there some sort of similar rallying cry for them to say that -- that the men used to go to war, the wealthy class and the yeomanry used their role as masters? was there something similar among the women? or was there class divisions?...

think it just accelerates a military drain that the confederacy's already suffering from. i mean, clayburn writes this thing at the end of 1863. and that's the other thing. as you well know, it's far quick er here in the mississippi valley and the tennessee valley than it is in virginia. yes. >> i had a question. so in your first book you talk a lot about how the wealthy class of planners appealed to the yeomanry and convinced them to go to war because of their shared role as masters. so i was wondering once we get into the war and women start to turn, confederate women start to turn...

annual lecture, which bill was acknowledged not only by the wonderful talk, but because of a book he co-authored with james tatum, the dartmouth classics department on african-american writing and the classical tradition. it's a wonderful book, and the book is also available in the bookstore. i want to begin by asking the members of the audience, how many of you as children had dr. seuss read to you? let me see a show of hands. a good one half. none of us are too old. and how many of you read dr. seuss to your children? almost everyone. dr. seuss is a transgenerational author. he's a...