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Goodon evening, everybody. I am the executive director at the nonprofit programming. An independent bookstore delighted to be here with all of you tonight wherever you are watching from we know we have a lot of atlanta folks in the house and if youre in for decades at this point weve celebrated the work across many genres. In a moment i will introduce anderson who is the director of the development and communications to tell you a little bit about their work. First i want to introduce. But then the Senior Editor at the atlantic and the host and cocreator of the narrative podcast about Hurrican...

Booktv is steve moore. His most recent book is govzilla how the relentless growth of government is devouring our economy and our freedom. Mr. Moore, has government ever not grown . Guest good to be with you. Love cspan. Thanks for having me. The book really goes through the whole history from the founding of a country and theres lots of graphs and charts ind this that show weve had a relentless growth of government but there have been periods, a good question actually, have there been periods where government has retrenched . The answer is yes. For example, for the first 50 o 100 years of our ...

To 100 years of our country, there really wasnt much growth of government. If government, you know, the federal government basically provided the postal service, built the roads, it provided the national and had a court system. But we didnt have all the, you know, social programs. And there was no Education Department or Energy Department back then. And and then, of course, the big. I think there were two or three things that happened in the United States that the big increase in government one was the adoption, the income tax. Because remember, for the first hundred years of this country, the...

Of introducing what many people consider . The brightest jewels in the crown of a first lady historians of america, so starting with dr. Barbara perry. And while dr. Perry is walking up here. It should be noted that she just came out today with an article. In the publication the hill on first ladies in war and as as barbara said she she was inspired by the association. And she is the gerald bayless professor and director of president ial studies the university of virginias miller center. And currently serves on the board which we are very honored the board of directors of the White House Histo...

The brightest jewels in the crown of a first lady historians of america, so starting with dr. Barbara perry. And while dr. Perry is walking up here. It should be noted that she just came out today with an article. In the publication the hill on first ladies in war and as as barbara said she she was inspired by the association. And she is the gerald bayless professor and director of president ial studies the university of virginias miller center. And currently serves on the board which we are very honored the board of directors of the White House Historical association. Joining her on stage our...