the national need to do a lot of smiling and they need to enjoy. i don't think that he come days that they are running the campaigning and what he loves is the power of the office ostensibly to do the things that need to be done to make the state run better. of course running for president you need to do an awful lot of the retail stuff. it's unlikely that he can do it and when. >> very interesting conclusion combination of the will to power and some limitations as you indicated. >> thank you so much. [applause]

next we visited the monro public county library library where the key west founding documents are located. >> we are in the branch of the monro county library. i have the archives for monro county in the church records plus some of the government records that other people have disposed of a little bit of everything.

i've pulled out several things that i thought maybe were just into c-span party. the general atoms into the various things that have happened here over the many years that we have been here. key west they either died or moved out into the spanish at the end of the first period. so it was never occupied when they owned florida. so no one had a permanent population until they bought florida and the commodore david porter was ordered to key west to establish the naval station and it really established the first civilization here who had bought the island.

so we consider the letter to his captain in april, 1823 to be the founding document and there are the 17 guns that are to be fired at it o'clock in the morning from the battery in front of the town and it needs to be hoisted the flag step and duty called allentown signed by david porter and he calls it thompson island

who was the secretary of the navy starting at about 1870 until 1900 key west was predominantly hispanic in 1875 and 76 we had a cuban born mayor so they were here for two reasons because of the revelation in cuba and large handful of cuban cigars made here in huge factories because of duties and labor problems so there were a number of things that happened one of them nationwide or worldwide.

they were from other places putting key west on the labels that were not made here. for a couple of things that happened of course they were giving money and donating to the revolution in cuba and in one of the letters we have is a letter from the major general against spanish rule and he's writing to the president in key west and the central committee thinking them for their hospitality on the visit and they are needed to fund the revolution in cuba and

because he was a man of african descent and a lot of the literature that you see in the country. the spanish built a wall across cuba from north to south to try to restrict the revolution to the eastern side of the mountains but being a major industry in one of the often had extensive advertising. they had a lot of labels and so forth that they sold that one of the things we have here that acquired many years ago is the

cigar company that made one call to the monte crisco. and of course one of the promotions heated they gave out a copy of the book and this is the front cover where they say that but then the interesting thing to us is on the back cover , they have a really nice color photograph on ninth street and it's in the city of florida the suburbs in key west. it was a major industry from the etds until the 1920s and usually employed about 2000 cigar workers and the cigar

workers because it was skilled workers and a shortage of labor they often need much above the average worker to three times the amount that an average worker would make and of course they were paid at the number of cigars they made per day and per week so they were not the same on the skill level of how many you can make that there was a very prosperous time probably the most prosperous time in key west. one of the other documents that we have is from ernest hemingway and it's a galley proof to have and have not that have been written on the margin by him until the experts have told me

that his writing is on here and maxwell is on here too. when hemingway split and went to cuba he left some documents stored in the bar. his friend, joe russell. it's a story during the depression. it's the only one of his writings based in the united states, and it talks about some wealthy people living here and the locals that were fishermen and waterfront people and the story of how they interacted with one another and what happened.

the theater that lets you the longest was tennessee williams the playwright and this was tennessee williams speaking here at the library from 1975 when the auditorium was dedicated in his name. the nationally known playwright and they were made on the streetcar named desire. he was considered during his lifetime the first post-playwright in the country and he was a leading founder in the open community in key west because of a lot of importance. if you visit or see anything about busheir everything about

the republic and as you take the tour it's a muscle that lives in the ocean and actually originally was attached to the people in the bahamas and the visitor to return for the people that couldn't get anything else to eat it like a big snail in the ocean and you go out and pick it up so that was a derogatory term people took and made a badge of honor and now everybody wants to be a called. we are also known after our little run-in in the 80s with the u.s. border patrol and immigration and put up a

roadblock and decided we had to prove if we were citizens to get into the mainland so we created the republic. they surrendered and asked for foreign aid. but he was a cartoonist in the 1970s, and a new york cartoonist who came up with his own version of the house, and you can see the large muscle in the house and the caption is if they can't house. i think you found looking at the history of the island it's been a very brilliant history over the years from 1820 to the present, and of course the tourist economy would still have the military in the population

of the city motto so we do try to be inclusive to everybody. of course you don't know what the future holds and things are changing particularly with cuba which in a past we had a very close relationship with and so that's going to be a new adventure for things between key west and as cuba changes over the next few years. this is book tv on c-span2 and we want to know what's on your summer reading list.