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[applause] well i hope youre having as much fun as i am at this festival. You know, i always think of students in college a few of you were in college few years ago as best thing to do is to take the take the teacher not the course. And here i think is thing that is fun is to tack these incredible authors to be in a room with them whatever theyre talking about. The only problem with it this with this festival is theres somebody in every room and you want to be with but today we have terrific people who i think, youve heard from them all at one point or o another Douglas Brinkley written biogra...

[applause] and now from the 2018 Rancho Mirage writers festival in california authors and historians john and margaret mcmellon and douglas discuss is their favorite historical figures. Ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to the stage Douglas Brinkley morgan and john with your moderator, jeff. [applause] well i hope youre having as much fun as i am at this festival. You know, i always think of students in college a few of you were in college few years ago as best thing to do is to take the take the teacher not the course. And here i think is thing that is fun is to tack these incr...

Tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. Up next on American History tv douglas wrinkly, author of the wilderness warrior recounts Theodore Roosevelts time in the west and how his experience there shaped his presidency. We also hear about roosevelts charge of San Juan Hill in the spanishamerican war and how his conservation efforts led to the protection of over 150 thousand acres 150 million acres of american land. This is about two hours. Doug good evening. It is an honor to be here at the New York Historical society and try to shed some light on one of my heroes, Theodore Roosevelt, and why...

Michael holt will. At the professor university. He was educated at princeton and phd at Johns Hopkins university. For time off at Cambridge University yale, stanford, and other institutions, cold has other institutions, cold has, been at the University Since 1970 or. Hes written deeply about political history. For many years, his writing focus was on the years before the civil war. The political crisis of the 19 1950s,ese of the which he wrote about, has been used for political courses. , was the runner up for the lincoln prize and is notten described as just because of the 1296 pages. More re...

Contest of 2000. And its no coincidence, in fact, that three years after the 2000 lection, two new books about the election of 1876 appeared ith the 2000 contest clearly in mind. One was by a bitter democrat. Its title says it all. Braud of the century, rother ford b hey. The republicans had stolen elections before. The other interesting thing, lee, was former chief which was sort of subtle defeet or subtle degeese in. He went into deciding whether to settle the election of 1876. There were certainly parallels, sometimes eerie. In 1876, as in pho two. As in 2000, electoral votes were in disput...