So i really appreciate the opportunity today to give, i guess, my first talk on this brand new book. I had some conversation and now im speaking to you directly and i hope you enjoy it because were the children and grandchildren of immigrants and im the grandchildren of immigrants, and its a story that Many Americans share. Even if we approach it now from from different points of view. And if we were speaking at our old headquarters of fort lesley mcnair, i would have a perfect hyper local introduction to this topic. Thats because, i mean, your former meeting site, as you all know, is the site of the execution of the lincoln conspirators. But remember, one of them was a german immigrant, george axelrod. All of them were hanged under the supervision of the son of german immigrants. And the grisly result was photographed by an immigrant from scotland, alexander gardener, spare it by fate it might be added, was the leader of the gang John Wilkes Booth who was killed by a trigger happy bri
So i really appreciate the opportunity today to give, i guess, my first talk on this brand new book. I had some conversation and now im speaking to you directly and i hope you enjoy it because were the children and grandchildren of immigrants and im the grandchildren of immigrants, and its a story that Many Americans share. Even if we approach it now from from different points of view. And if we were speaking at our old headquarters of fort lesley mcnair, i would have a perfect hyper local introduction to this topic. Thats because, i mean, your former meeting site, as you all know, is the site of the execution of the lincoln conspirators. But remember, one of them was a german immigrant, george axelrod. All of them were hanged under the supervision of the son of german immigrants. And the grisly result was photographed by an immigrant from scotland, alexander gardener, spare it by fate it might be added, was the leader of the gang John Wilkes Booth who was killed by a trigger happy bri
Brand new book. I had some conversation and now im speaking to you directly and i hope you enjoy it because were the children and grandchildren of immigrants and im the grandchildren of immigrants, and its a story that Many Americans share. Even if we approach it now from from different points of view. And if we were speaking at our old headquarters of fort lesley mcnair, i would have a perfect hyper local introduction to this topic. Thats because, i mean, your former meeting site, as you all know, is the site of the execution of the lincoln conspirators. But remember, one of them was a german immigrant, george axelrod. All of them were hanged under the supervision of the son of german immigrants. And the grisly result was photographed by an immigrant from scotland, alexander gardener, spare it by fate it might be added, was the leader of the gang John Wilkes Booth who was killed by a trigger happy british immigrant boston corbett, under the command of an irish born captain. So this is
Brand new book. I had some conversation and now im speaking to you directly and i hope you enjoy it because were the children and grandchildren of immigrants and im the grandchildren of immigrants, and its a story that Many Americans share. Even if we approach it now from from different points of view. And if we were speaking at our old headquarters of fort lesley mcnair, i would have a perfect hyper local introduction to this topic. Thats because, i mean, your former meeting site, as you all know, is the site of the execution of the lincoln conspirators. But remember, one of them was a german immigrant, george axelrod. All of them were hanged under the supervision of the son of german immigrants. And the grisly result was photographed by an immigrant from scotland, alexander gardener, spare it by fate it might be added, was the leader of the gang John Wilkes Booth who was killed by a trigger happy british immigrant boston corbett, under the command of an irish born captain. So this is
Good evening everyone. Wait for just a moment and let some of our other folks get themselves seated. I have some minor chores to attend to so i wont do that while they are getting seated. As was usual there will be a book signing in the lobby you are invited to bring your books and have an autographed by the distinguished authors. Welcome to the free library and if you introduce yourselves i am in a way a library junkie they spent many long hours and as i look across the audience i see that im not the only junkie here. Many of you are familiar with the programs here. And of course programs like this and the author events series are marvelous and the great contribution to our philadelphia life. So i want to also invite you to take a look at the free library. Org. It would be so appropriate and most welcome to create the great work of the library, so now i want to introduce our distinguished guest. It is a pleasure to bring you the professors who will speak. I want to give a shout out to