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Next on booktv, Tom Angelique and the American Revolution from assorted 18th Century Newspapers. Mr. Anderlecht contains newspapers from 1763 to 1783 examines reports ranging from the sugar of 18,642,000 concorde and bunker hill. Its an hour and 15. Its an honor to be speaking at the old state house. Thank you for coming. Thank you to the tv and cspan for joining us here. About three weeks into the design of reporting the revolutionary war, we realized we were on pace to producing 800 page from a twoinch thick volume and so we quickly cut corners and retrace our steps and decided to scale back...

Mortar lysed as it was on november 19, 1863 at gettysburg, president ia, there, lincoln made his most celebrated reference to the declaration of independence. , everyon a time schoolboy come every schoolgirl, would have memorized four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now the declaration of independence established the founding principles of the american republic. The document itself written by thomas jefferson, edited and approved by the second continental co...

History. He wins and 72 over mcgovern , the biggest landslide in history. In fact, at dec. 72 he says someone asked not to write a book about all of this. And having the most successful presidency of all time. But, boy, how the mighty have fallen. That story, of constantly looking at the interest, how someone can be the most powerful person and take that kind of cataclysmic fall, and these tapes are forming of just a part of the story. They need to be supplemented with memo, oral history. I wanted to think john dean for coming here to austin and providing your insight and firsthand knowledge a...

The copies he used to give a quick reading. This is the first one he ever did. The First Reading he gave within 1853 and this is the prompt copy or the performance copy for a christmas carol. He first read it in birmingham in 1853. This was not in existence. Had about creating a text that could be short enough that people could listen to you for over a period of an hour, 10 minutes or so and so he had a binder of the 1849 station, and then he went through it over a couple of years for the editorial passes and you can see that he sometimes we wrote passages because if he would have deleted some...

On a recent trip to new york city, booktv visited the New York Public Library where we spoke with the librarys president and ceo, anthony marx, but the history of the institution as well as its Current Operations and future. Lets start with some numbers. How big is the New York Public Library . How many employees, budget, et cetera . New York Public Library combines the largest circulating Branch Library system in america, 88 branches, in every neighborhood in the boroughs we serve, as well as for Important Research libraries. This one being the crown jewel at the center of the system but also...