root of why human beings are all about and all to motley why you have to do a sociology test that it is completely contingent of the economic interest. >> thank you for coming. go get a book signed. faq moderator's. [applause] spirit just a reminder we do have copies for sale at the register and we will be citing them. thank you for coming. [inaudible conversations]

>> the book we're talking about today is "augusta" then and now" a book that i wrote with the museum of history so no better place to talk about the book and what we weren't there and here in this award winning local museum. it is entitled adust does story so it tells us how agusta developed dedicated to be what it is now.

1733 james oglethorpe one of 21 trustees of a charitable trust like a nonprofit organization of today, came to savannah with a shipload of people who would start a new colony south of the savannah river in the area of the museum now to talk about this colonial era here in agusta. we have of picture of princess address the issue was the wife of frederick the prince of wales. think of them the william and kate of your day very to 1736 and when oglethorpe came back he said he wanted a fort built and was very aware indian trade was going on to protect that trade and the traders.

support was named for the princess of wales and there was another for to build in the south part of the comedy that was named frederika after the of prince so a the royal marriage was honored to do that. fortunately is in excess the end much of the of backcountry of the south south, the revolution was the civil war between people who lived here that were loyal to the crown or part of the revolutionary force. so some of the fighting has the guerrilla warfare. behind to me are the representation of the continental soldier isn't uniform they would come toward the end and then we would see is the militiamen

said you have to different armies fighting for the patriot cause those that were part of the state's militia as well as those who joined up with those continental forces joining up with george washington and washington was appointed general nathanael greene as part of the southern forces after 1778. after the american revolution the indian trade was over and farmers filled up the back country in increasing numbers of land secessions with the cherokee to push them all the way out of georgia. the initial farmers that lived in this area were producing tobacco made eighth came from the

virginia or the carolinas that was the cash crop. through the '70s and '80s and '90s greasy the people in the countryside producing large numbers of tobacco that was put in and moved into town. basically into big barrels turned on their side the axle put through the center and fox up to which team of horses and rolled into town. that is how people made their money it would be called tobacco row because they followed the ridges to keep it go through the low-lying areas where it could get wet proposal that was the center of a lot of trade for years. in the 70 '90s, a connecticut inventor eli

whitney working on the plantation of katherine corinne outside of savannah and came up with a mechanical invention called the cotton gin that makes cotton for the first time now you could get the seeds out from the fiber. said people switch from tobacco to cotton. from the early 1800's on, the cotton was king in this area as one of the preachers have said. for ruth the entire antebellum period before the of for the countryside produce cotton cotton farmers brought here to market and while here they brought the goods and luxury

items from the merchants of agusta. they were a part of the confederacy because during the civil war agusta was chosen as the site of the powder works and the agusta arsenal was a rented to the confederates january 1861 to produce munitions throughout the war. so agusta was very much a part of the war but there was no actual fighting that makes the recovery faster and easier. is in the reconstruction period they began to talk of the new south philosophy to

build the textile mills and cotton to the north and the money that would come from that. and it was a textile center and debt would remain that and tell the modern era and tell other parts of the south began to move out of the country to other places. i think local history is a key to understanding history on a larger scale. because a local community is a microcosm of what happens is the larger world. if we cannot understand where we are we not know where we have been or why things are the way they are if we don't understand how

they got to be the way they are. the local history provides that window for us to understanding of our past and how it has evolved over the years which helps us to know the only are as a people and what we are today. >> i have read several great books fell one in particular is factory man. a reporter who does not report as much as she stood she is doing more freelances

as she has written this best-selling book with the battle by one man leading the effort to fight against the chinese imports in the united states that decimated the furniture industry in north carolina there is so well-written book she is the great storyteller is sounds like a heavy subjects but it is not i would definitely recommend that for summertime reading even on the beach. she tells the story in a very human way some people understand the impact but she is very fair to deal with the different perspectives and few points about imports and the positive and negative effects of the u.s. economy and consumers is the great book and i encourage people to read it. i have also read a trilogy of books about an american

president if they are history lovers like i am i recommend these books that cover most of the first quarter of a 20th-century including the bully pulpit which includes theater roosevelt and the great battles they had in the presidential election with woodrow wilson to be elected president that is a book called wilson and finally most recently of a trilogy by rebating, alleged witches say very engrossing story about calvin coolidge background and history. a man of not many words but she tells the story in the way that brings out all lot about him that people otherwise would not have known.

>> all lots of the letters are funny. you wrote one about a terrorist named e. coli. >> a bacterial outbreak in european some people died. they gave it the name e coli and then some numbers. so i'm trying to get back to president clinton to read define terrorism review are worried about the lawsuit you better worry about viruses and bacteria. not just the ones that come from africa or asia we're dealing with mutations per you were a scientist, it is scary. if we don't get ready in time it could be like the influenza epidemic after world war i.

he said how will i get to these people? i say one of the letter in the name of e coli to was sitting in a petri dish and its life is very limited there will come and get it they already analyzed it. so he figures i have to do something to redeem myself so it is returned to sender to make the case for the president to raise the priority of focus and concern to prevent deadly epidemics all over the world no one better than the united states to confront that if we can get over of the restriction of the word terrorist. >> one event i was at was that politics & prose with the book's launch your in washington d.c.. i was fascinated how that

talk went. it was great but the first question and you got was why did you give the election to called for? have you ever been to any event that was not there? >> but your answer was so spot on and direct the they're rather skeptical because they are staunched a recurrence. but you'll got serious supplies. i think it is important for people to hear. >> we can never tolerate political bigotry against third-party or independent candidate we all have a right to run for election if we all have that right big guys or third-party we have a right to give those to one another me either you are this boiler so why should the green party candidate be

a third class citizen but the pragmatic reply is if you ask al gore might he lost he would say i won the election i won the popular vote the electoral college's antiquated and then he will say it was stolen from him in a variety of ways and the flora the secretary of state , jeb bush, and shenanigans, then the supreme court. and he would have been president if he just won his home state of tennessee that he represented where his headquarters were. so any one of which would have put him in the warehouse. >> also 250,000 democrats voted republican in florida. how much was that lost by?

>> 537 before a the recount. >> so they switched parties. >> also arkansas. when he was vice president to clinton. >> clinton could have got said arkansas for him. >> i am amazed people continue to ask the question. >> is the alibi there will except anything the democrats offer and i tried to tell them you were losing bargaining power if you do that. so how do they use that progressive wing go as it is increasingly militaristic corporate wall street, a helena -- hillary clinton even. but we don't say rigo for the least worst i will not put pressure on april or may

or june or july they tell the pros blood ashley pollsters what they want to hear which is blank is support because the republicans are worse but every four years both parties get worse. . .

why do you open with thomas jefferson and the library of congress? >> because jefferson changed my life. he wrote a letter to his nephew, and peter was 13 15 somewhere in that area and hi