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Give a warm welcome to the stage. [applause]. I hope you are having as much fun as i am at this festival. [applause]. I think of students in college a few of you were in college a few years ago as the best thing to do is to take the teacher not the course and here i think of things to take these incredible authors and be in a room with them. Whatever theyre talking about. The only problem is there is someone in every room. That you want to be with. I think you heard from them all at one point or another. They have also done some the other interesting things. American shots. He is the cn and historian. He has a little bit of basement studio and envy of john meacham. Whos got that at msnbc. Of course the great tester in 1919. Just a transformative book that is so important. Many of us know him from his basement with morning joe. The assignment is to talk about who is your favorite historical figure. I want to make that a free and fun thing. Maybe later we would get into other elements. W ....
Programs. In 1982 he appeared on book notes to talk about his biography of president truman it won the Pulitzer Prize for biography and to help change the view of the truman presidency. Here he is from 1992. Cspan you start off by saying as far back as he could remember truman held onto the mythical roman heroes. What is that all about . The mythical hero who left in time of war with the great general and was victorious and renounced all of his power and returned to the farm. Thats a theme the country was founded on. If you are at the capital with the great painting of George Washington turning over his powers as commanderinchief of the Continental Army to congress the symbols earth all throughout that painting because they believe this is what democracy entailed that any citizen should be called upon at any time to ....
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Post to say if donald trump wins, his wife is an immigrant. Especially at that time he was having a rally that day really about the wall to keep immigrants out. So i started to make calls and it was just shocking how little was known about basic autobiographical information. Donald trump has been in the public eye forever. Why do we know so little about milania . A bunch of reasons but she only arrived in america in 2006 so i had to travel to her native countrys lenient part of the former yugoslavia. And was a socialist country and right around the time that she left that whole bulk and area i was involved in conflict when i was going around its very interesting how many said i got a call dont talk. And that enigmatic and mysterious. One of the effects of that people make assumptions about her that you discovered turned out not to be true. Tell us about some of those. Because we didnt see her on the campaign trail we dismissed her as a nonplayer. But it turns out even though you dont s ....