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Bring something new to it. You are in for a treat. Now, as a narrative historian rather than a art historian or art history professor, what i do is write books. In order to do that, i look at the topography of the past and i try to identify fault lines that other people have not seen. This book is a case in point. Eight years ago, i had a conversation with my editor. I just finished a book about Thomas Jefferson and the early days of architecture. She said to me what to do you want to do next . I had a couple of have ideas which i described to her. She very nicely said, i do not think so. [lau...

40s across the map a cute couple spots will be doing ok as the head out the door this morning you will not have the one of the kids so tightly this is what the weather is one to be like as we work our way through the date the Morning Hours ride around 7 00 were looking for low clouds it will be a little cool as the will know for is an upper 30s in the mix not much has changed by noontime to libraries in the air will get things up to much arise whether quickly of the fifties to low 60s and my three in the afternoon looking for Clear Conditions a little warmer than yesterday of for 64 the number...

Hi. So when i think about empowered women, i also am curious about their relationship to their fathers growing up. So you talked a little wit a little bit about their childhood, so im curious to know what was the relationship with each woman with her father. Certainly for Elizabeth Gurley flynn, her father, tom none, was a very flynn, was a very important figure in her life. And she he was a very strong socialist, and actually the whole family converted to socialism in 1902. And in that way i think he really influenced Elizabeth Gurley flynn, and he supported her. I mean when she was just, you...

And ready to go, so let me ask you to start things off. All right, thank you michael. Do we have five hours . [laughter] i want to take this paragraph or two and pull it apart. One of the wonderful things about writing a book about the great gatsby is that i can purchase assume pretty much assume, as i think andrew can that were speaking to an audience who has read the novel at least at some point in their lives. So im going to read from the first chapter where nick decides to go visit his cousin Daisy Buchanan who he hasnt seen in a while. Hes invited for dinner, and he walks into the buchana...

Announcer 2 up next, mark webber, the complete history of residential drinking. He talks about the drinking habits of u. S. President s and how it shaped relations in u. S. Decisionmaking. Franken roosevelt Franken Roosevelt drank martinis and a coat closet to hide it from his mother. This is one hour. Mark i would like to welcome you to the mcgowan theater and washington, d. C. I would like to thank all of you for coming out today after the snow we had yesterday. I hope you deny can cabin fever or anything like that. Our talk is about mint juleps with Teddy Roosevelt the complete history of p...