brands, tell us about the contrast you draw so vividly in the cell at and the emancipator between abraham lincoln and john brown. you note in the book that the conventional accounts of lincoln as a contemporaries or and cautious moderates may be overdrawn, that lincoln had a passionate zeal for emancipation once he was convinced and nevertheless you contrasting with brown who led an unsuccessful mom attack if that's a word that you would use on the armory. failed in his efforts to incite a slave revolts. what did lincoln make up ground attempt mob action and was brown and example of a good mom as larry kramer argues we saw during the revolution itself because after all, the boston tea party was a mob attack on british tvs so was brown in that tradition and held our audience understand the difference between these two men, brown and lincoln. >> john brown would have been incensed to have his followers at harpers ferry described as a mom. they were well disciplined, they beentrained . they were paramilitary fighters, but they didn't have a mind of their own. he was their commander, they follow his

one of my objectives was what can i say that is new about abraham lincoln? i felt that by viewing him, seeing him framed or reflected against frederick douglass, i could offer some new interpretations. primarily i think one of the things i do with lincoln is i de-romanticize him. i think he continues to be written about in ways that suggest a mythological figure. what do i mean by that? a lot of writers see lincoln as essentially perfect, particularly during his presidency. he was in my view the greatest president, a brilliant politician, but i think too many writers see him as someone who never made a mistake, whose every action was a perfect one, so to speak. that is to create a myth, not a human. to be human is to make mistakes, to be deeply flawed. i felt by acknowledging and highlighting even some of the flaws, i come away and hopefully readers come away respecting and appreciating him even more by understanding how far he was able to grow. by pairing him with frederick douglass, i also wanted to represent and show douglass in a new, and especially by sh

thank you very much. >> at a time of unprecedented strife president abraham lincoln took the reins of national leadership and reunited a fractured america. named in honor of the 16th present the gilder lehrman lincoln prize started in 1990 and has been awarded annually for abraham lincoln the american civil wars soldier for the american civil war hero. 50 the inspired leadership of louis lehrman and richard gilder the lincoln prize committee has considered more than 3200 works that awarded more than $1.5 million in prices over the last three decades. the award has on the scholars such as barbara fields doris kearns goodwin jim macpherson and filmmaker steven spielberg and timbers honored for the not for four the not for a price for his documentary message the silver roll -- the civil war as well as many others. the gilder lehrman lincoln prize has set the standard for scholarly awards and shines a bright light on the legacy of lincoln and the breadth of his accomplishments as well as the heroes of the civil war. although america may change and grow the memory in the words of abraham l

also abraham lincoln's only surviving son.resident harding in a speech broadcast on nationwide radio told the audience, this memorial is less for abraham lincoln than those of us today and those who follow after. the tuskegee institute president delivered the keynote address that promoted equality between the races. an african-american, he spoke to a segregated audience and discussed the origins of discrimination by comparing the arrival of the may thaw or -- mayflower for religious freedom to that of a slave ship. jacob read --riis, discovering how the other half lives.

birth of the 60 resident, there are a bunch -- an abundance of lectures and books goes is don abraham lincoln. we -- the author we have with us today has chosen to focus on another year of lincoln, 1864. everything bearing down on him, the war, the rapidly eroding said public support -- eroding public support for the more, and a struggle to win a second term. 1864, what happens? ulysses s grant is brought east to replace the general of the union armies. some are confederate general raid on washington sends a scare to the union capital. lincoln himself will proceed to the front to see things from fort stevens. soon we'll valley campaign in the nation will learn more about will sheridan. all the while his working his way towards atlanta and after capturing that city will proceed on his famous march to the sea. he is facing opposition from both the copperheads and radical republicans. one of the passages that struck me, here was lincoln waging both war and peace. to talk to us more about that pivotal year of 1864, charles breslin. flood. >> one last comment, when we go to the questions and answe

now, i wanted to show because we can, here abraham lincoln book shop. we have original artifacts such as this note written by lincoln in the hand of him, but for his second law partner and he's writing in a case. justice and justice versus garth and the cost of it. and these are some of the things we had. this is what his handwriting looks like as a lawyer. so, there are many aspects to the advice he gives here, not to take a pay in advance, which is an interesting thought and of course, on honesty. and ward hill was a lawyer and wasn't there to guard lincoln when he needed him to be and sent him off to richmond april 14th so he wasn't there. lincoln was a politician and lawyer and lambdon and i had a note that said that, that lincoln could stretch the truth when necessary. so in lamin's observation, honesty is in this note, very important, but what you think the most cogent arguments are in this long note. >> well, he begins in a remarkable way. the note is dated by basler to be 1850. we remember that lincoln served one term in congress, 1847-49. he ret

he was very open-minded to new ideas. >> abraham lincoln and frederick douglass knew each other well, tell us about their report and how their relationship impacted lincoln's values and policies. >> in modern parlance, i think they would have been enemies. lincoln was the first president i could tell who welcomed douglas into the white house. douglas was a thinker, speaker, abolitionist. he wrote two autobiographies and you read them, he is amazing. he opens up the whole issue of slavery and economic equality and what we need to do. there's probably no better person if you want to understand where we are today, read frederick douglass and there's a good biography on him right now. douglas was very critical of lincoln in the early years even though they talked on what we would consider a fairly regular basis and he was in the white house and lincoln welcomed him in. douglas didn't think lincoln was doing enough to end slavery. emancipation proclamation didn't and slavery in totality and it was incomplete declaration that mostly read slaves to fight the union side so that is one interpr

i would like to a sketch a little background first of all the notion that abraham lincoln was an early and ardent colonizationist is simply not true. that lincoln was very late to join the colonization movement and he was a rather lukewarm supporter of it. he was living in springfield from 1837 to 1861 and in that 24-year period colonization societies when the 1830s and 1840s sprung up chapters of colonization societies in springfield and the surrounding area three of them. lincoln did not join any of those. in the 1840s a bunch of wig lawyers and lincoln was a wig lawyer in central, illinois. they got together and formed the illinois state colonization society. lincoln was not a founding member of that. lincoln did speak to that colonization society in the mid 1850s. and recently a version of that speech has been on earth the newspaper account. and his speech to that conversation said it was very lukewarm. is it hardly enthusiastic when he said it seemed like an idea worth pursuing but was not endorsing it wholeheartedly by any means. and when lincoln then in 1852 when he first mentio

still have copies first edition signed copies of no common ground available that you can order at abraham lincoln book shops website. that is a lincoln book shop.com if you are watching this live on the facebook feed we are going to put a link to the order form in the comments so that you can go in there and order order the book order the book we have special. signed and dated book plates that karen was kind enough to sign for us and thank you karen. you want that are only available if you order it on the day of the release? we have other book plates other signed bookplates that we will give you if you order it later, but if you order today, you will get a a signed in dated book plate. which will create in effect a limited edition, right? here's your limited edition. karen of no common ground signed and dated. so folks at home, feel free get out there and order the book. that's how we can afford to put these programs on for you and introduce you to the authors on a house divided. now a little bit on our guests today, dr. karen cox is professor of history at university of north carolina, charlotte

president warren g harding and robert todd lincoln abraham lincoln's only surviving son. president harding in a speech broadcast on nationwide radio told the audience this memorial is less for abraham lincoln than those of us today. and for those who follow after tuskegee institute president robert moten delivered the keynote address that promoted equality among the races mr. moten an african-american spoke to a segregated audience and discussed the origins of discrimination by comparing the arrival of the mayflower for religious freedom to the arrival of a slave ship with human cargo. follow us on social media at c-span history for more this day in history clips and posts. on august 14th 1862 president lincoln met at the white house with five african-american leaders to get their thoughts on how to spend $600,000 congress had designated for colonization programs next lincoln scholar michael burlingame argues that contrary to conventional thinking abraham lincoln had not been a strong advocate of colonization programs for freed slaves colonization societies. hope to solve

this young man was abraham lincoln.trip out of springfield, illinois. 1828 is a really important here though. that is with the erie canal opened. that gave new york city, which became of course with the greatest imports in the world, access to the markets west into the great lakes brit at the time chicago was not even a city it was a swampy trading post a very inaccessible because the only way of getting down to the mississippi river was through an ugly portage called bud lake. even in 1673, two explorers said hey there should be a canal here. if you connect the chicago river to lake michigan, the great lakes, the erie canal, new york city you can get to new orleans because internet to the illinois river, then the mississippi and onto the chosen city. that was on the first impressions that young abraham lincoln had as the nation was growing in the 1830s, it was really a time that we don't really study a whole lot. because we mostly skip from the revolution to the civil war, there is a lot of history in between. one of t

wish it was in person, but glad to be with the abraham lincoln book shop. again. thank you very much and we all so wish you were here in person because it's so much fun to even have a conversation like this if it's face to face this it's just so much more fun to interact. we'll have those times again sure. we're coming to the end of this of this current unpleasantness, and we'll have those days again. hey everybody out there. we are here to talk about a karen's new book. but before we do that, i also wish to send out a greetings and salutations to those of you who may be watching this conversation on c-span book tv. we are recording the real recording this event on april 12th, 2021, which is the date of release of no common ground. and so those of you are watching this on c-span book tv, we'll be watching it at some other time, but we thank you for your attention to it and we hope that you will enjoy this conversation if you are watching it later if you are watching it later, we will still have copies first edition signed copies of no common ground available that

this is george coming to you from abraham lincoln bookshop in chicago. i have our guest with us right here. this is doctor karen cox. the author of no common ground. monuments and the ongoing fight for racial justice. doctor cox, welcome to the show. >> it is great to be with you. i wish it was in person, but glad to be with that a blanket bookshop again. >> thank you very much. we also wish you were here in person. so much fun. even a conversation like this, not face-to-face, it is so much more fun to interact. we will have those times again. >> sure. >> we are coming to the end of this unpleasantness and we will have good days again. hey everybody out there, we are here to talk about karen's new book. before we do that, i also wish to send out greetings and salutations to those of you who may be watching this conversation on c-span book tv. we are recording, we are recording this event on april 12, 2021 which is the date of release of no common ground. for those of you that are watching this on c-span book tv will be watching it at some other time. we

abraham lincoln, lincoln's emancipation proclamation. the gettysburg, last invasion. and all of those have won the lincoln prize. who else would you give it to? >> the story of most human societies has followed more or less predictable pattern, it is the pattern of tribes. sometimes tribes establishing control over others by war or subversion, or of tribes breaking free of that control. and in both cases, led by a charismatic leader whose reward is god like power overall. these tribes identify themselves by language, ethnicity or soil. but their story is mostly the same. us, not them, power, not liberty, stasis, not transformation. 244 years ago, from the intellectual milieu, broke from this pattern by it and fine itself by the natural and inalienable rights of all men as received not from some legendary leader, but from the almighty creator himself. 11 years later, this nation wrote a republican instrument of government that turned all of its attention to how those rights could best be secured. in a world of empires and monarchs and serfs, where men were born as an a

bjorn: i'm occasionally going to share things that we have in abraham lincoln's bookshop and usually want to do this, try to sell it to you. to me some of the things we will share in this program. tell us the value as the next ordinary valuable historically. knowing pitching this to you but karen, i'm going to give you one chance to talk about one particular unc person and that is the photographer we don't need to go back to dixie daughters but i think people are interested in the confederate monitor and monuments will want to know that there is a project going on and people behind this project and here we see these pamphlets that she is passing out there teaching in a pitching it in teaching it privileged version of the civil war that privileges of the confederate memory of the civil war. it's called the lost cause. a lot of people were listening to the snow about the lost cause. even those monuments have a real project behind them that is to tell our story. karen: exactly. there was like a one-woman pr machine for the unc, she wrote all of the scrapbooks about various aspects of co

master abraham lincoln how do you know? why captain god told me so why he will be elected the next four years after this and four years after that. god blessed mr. president. for that black soldier the abraham the election of abraham lincoln was very meaningful now. i don't know if god told him that lincoln would be re-elected for four years after that because clearly lincoln would be assassinated a few months later. i want to close by just highlighting how important it was that this election was held in wartime. that for lincoln while the nation was grappling with the issue of treason on a massive level the south fighting against the north and also threats of treason from within the north itself with these secret societies. it was still incumbent upon lincoln to hold the election and to abide by the results. he never wavered in that. he never thought about canceling the election or not. turning over the white house to george mcclellan should mcclellan have beaten him. and i think the election of 1864 is one of the most imp

here an extraordinary letter from corporal henry james gooding to president abraham lincoln complaining about that desparility in pay and he says quite pointedly to president lincoln. are we soldiers or are we laborers? as so many others would argue, you know in the years thereafter arguing for equal pay for equal work and then he goes on to remind president lincoln that at that as soon as the north had opened its armies up to enlistment by african-americans the south had tried to inhibit that by saying that any african-american soldiers who were caught would be killed outright some rarely executed. and lincoln had said if you know you if you do that, you must treat all of our soldiers equally black and white gooding in this letter goes on to say if you tell the south that it has to treat all soldiers black and white the same then why aren't you paying all soldiers the same so wonderful extraordinary letter and indeed when the union army refused to pay the african-american soldiers that the 13 dollars a month that they had promised all of the 54th both the officers and the soldiers refu

robert todd lincoln, abraham lincoln's only surviving son. president harding told the audience, this memorial is less for abraham lincoln than those of us today and for those who follow after. tuskegee institute president robert mouton delivered the keynote address that promoted equality among the races. mr. mouton, an african-american, spoke to a segregated audience and discuss the origins of discrimination by comparing the arrival of the mayflower for religious freedom to the arrival of a slave ship with human cargo. >> follow us on social media at c-span history for more this day in history clips and posts. ♪ >> this is american history tv on c-span3. each weekend, we feature 48 hours of programs exploring our nation's past. >> a century ago on may 31, 1921, racial tensions in tosa, oklahoma led to an armed mob of white men marching on the cities of -- city's african-american district. over the next day, the neighborhood known as black wall street would be the scene of shootings, arson, and looting. official totals put the number killed at

the concept so simply described by abraham lincoln. as government by the people of the people for the people. is fundamental to our two nations? your congress and our parliament? all the twin pillars of our civilizations and the chief among the many treasures that we have inherited from our predecessors. we like you a stunt believers in the freedom of the individual and the rule of a fair and just law. these principles are shared with our european partners and with the wider atlantic community. they are the bedrock of the western world. some people believe that power grows from the barrel of a gun. so it can but history shows. that he never grows well nor for very long. force in the end is sterile. we have gone a better way. our societies rest on mutual agreement on contract and on consensus a significant part of your social contract is written down in your constitution. as rests on custom and will the spirit behind both however is precisely the same. it is the spirit of democracy. these ideals are clear enough, but they must never be

i'm going to talk about abraham lincoln, amazingly. what i want to do is tell a story about him that i think illustrates a point that we can expashuate on. we know lincoln was a voracious reader and had little form of education, but most of his sense of the english language was from reading shakespeare and the soaring language of the kings james bible. he read evidently almost no history in his early days. the sole exception we know of was mason williams' biography written in 1799 of george washington. it's a book few would read today, and certainly not for its accuracy. it is the book from which we get the fable about george washington chopping down the cherry tree and being unable to lie about it. the mature lincoln went onto develop a more sophisticated understanding of history, but he never forgot the elements of it that stuck in his mind, and influenced his view of the american revolution and the civil war, and reflected his fundamental values. we know this because in february of 1861, 40 years after he read williams' book, lincoln

>> abraham lincoln. >> jimmy: that is correct. now, do you want to keep your winnings or keep going? >> i'll definitely keep going. >> jimmy: all right, let's go for it. who, keith, is on the nickel? >> thomas jefferson. >> jimmy: that is right, keith, very good. keith, you have six cents, do you want to keep going? >> well, it's not going to pay the mortgage, so i'll keep going. >> jimmy: all right, keith, who is on the dime? >> uh, have no clue. >> jimmy: you don't know? >> no clue. >> jimmy: you want to take a guess? >> john f. kennedy. >> jimmy: oh, no, i'm so sorry. that six cents back, fish that out of your pocket. thank you for playing "on the money." everyone's going home empty handed. i believe we have a consolation prize. dickey, what do we have? >> dicky: all of our contestants will receive the "on the money" home game, retail value, 41 cents. >> jimmy: we have a good show for you tonight- kirby howell-baptiste is here. we've got music from royal blood. and we'll be right back with gabrielle union and dwayne wade. >> di

the concept says -- the concept described by abraham lincoln government by the people for the people of the people. your congress and our parliament are the twin pillars of our civilizations. the chief among many treasures that we have inherited from our predecessors. we are staunch believers in the freedom of the individual and the role of a fair and just law. these principles are shared with our european partners and the atlantic unity. they are the bedrock of the western world. some people believe that power rose from the barrel of a gun. history shows that it never goes well. force is sterile. we have found a better way. societies rest on mutual agreement, contract and consensus. a significant part of your social contract is written down in your constitution. hours rests on custom and will. the spirit behind both are precisely that is -- the spirit behind both is precisely the same. the spirit of democracy. these ideas -- ideals must be protected and nurtured through every change in front -- and fluctuation. i want to take this opportunity to express the gratitude of the british

when you become obsessed with pulling down the statue's of abraham lincoln and george washington and of staging a purge essentially of american history and a purge of american monuments you know that as a way of saying we want a kind of revolution. they want new statutes and new people all representing new principles and that takes you in a direction that is very hard to agree to disagree about. >> host: depending on how you interpret what he just said an analogous to the book you could have differences with the left which has red -- led to a crisis but if you are willing to accept all the quantitative stuff and just object to certain identity or in politics you may be 90 or 95% of government have resulted from these three waves and if not endorse hussein not such a big deal so obviously readers of your book interpret themselves how they feel about that. in a few minutes i have left i want to talk to you about your view of the right in the couple of aspects you mentioned the identity politics. those in terms of saying that we know they have this view as the u.s. is not about the natu

president warren g harding and robert todd lincoln abraham lincoln's only surviving son. president harding in a speech broadcast on nationwide radio told the audience this memorial is less for abraham lincoln than those of us today. and for those who follow after tuskegee institute president robert moten delivered the keynote address that promoted equality among the races mr. moten an african-american spoke to a segregated audience and discussed the origins of discrimination by comparing the arrival of the mayflower for religious freedom to the arrival of a slave ship with human cargo. follow us on social media at c-span history for more this day in history clips and posts. american history tv on c-span 3 every weekend documenting america's story funding comes from these television companies and more including comcast. are you think this is just a community center? no, it's way more than that comcast is partnering with a thousand community centers to create wi-fi enabled listings. so students from low-income families can get the tools. they need to be ready for anything.

we their images in the collection in the book of abraham lincoln with some of the generals that we know in history to an image here of nicholas biddle who is and from pennsylvania and pottsville, pennsylvania who in 1861 is known as the first wounded. man in the great american rebellion 1861 april 18th, and he was wounded in baltimore when there were a group of men company militia volunteer militia from pennsylvania. they marched through the city of baltimore on their way to defend the capital in washington dc. it's an important moment for to see this image because biddle who was injured he was called names and and rocks were thrown and he was hit on the head by one of the rocks and was bleeding and we can see after the war. he visited photographer studio in his uniform with the handkerchief that he used to wipe the blood off of his face and so here again, we see the aspect of creating identity creating a biography through the experience of being photographed and remembering as i mentioned earlier that memory personal and public is central to creating these images. we have sailors. we a

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he spoke to o abraham lincoln about it and he says it was the civil war that inspired photography and greatly contributed to succession and, of course, war. he wrote, once you let the black men get upon the brass letter u.s., let him get an eagle on his button and musket on his shoulder and there's no power on earth or under earth that can deny that he has earned the right oft citizenship in the united states. again, this is taken during the war years of 1860's, so we see formable look and he wrote, african of african descent joining the war. this is the type of image why soldiers join, this is a photograph as a man who joined the 5454 and as we look as artis that tell the story about this experience, this is carrie mae weem, as i consider the image here, she says i looked and looked to see and looking at the history and he's wearing an antebellum-type dress made like a quilt and she wants to acknowledge and confirm and affirm her beauty and her humanity. she created images of looking women who were in place and went to the islands to make experiences of enslaved people on plantations

oh, yes, i could tell you about columbus, tell you about abraham lincoln and george washington. as a little black girl, most of them today in the 21st century, they're not hearing about the wide diversity of our history, madam speaker. yours and mine. and the many people that are on this side of the aisle or their side of the aisle. so let me just recount very briefly again a century ago white rioters, local laurnl, self-appointed vigilanties claimed to be acting reasonably and in self-defense against what they feared was a black uprising. same as january 6 where there were people who had the audacity to say looked like tourists on any normal day. when we were laying flat on the floor in this building while banging and screams and guns drawn on this side of that door , we didn't know whether we would live and a life-saving shot. for that person who did not know what was happening, attempting to save lives, sadly someone lost their life. members in near panic, rightly so. leaving these chambers, walking down and seeing a.k. -- ak-47's in the hands of individuals laying flat on gr

i think anybody who is doubtful about this should just go read abraham lincoln's last. annual message to congress in december 1864 where he says very explicitly in a great fight like this there needs to be a general goal that goal is union. but he said we need the 13th amendment because that will give us one of the tools necessary to restore the union now. he's that that rhetoric is for the whole nation. he wants to keep everybody on board with the war effort. he knows that's the best way to do it. he wanted to get rid of slavery, of course all along but he's realistic. and so i'm curious to follow up on that in terms of training graduate students, or maybe even some undergraduate students to think about these more complex reaches of the word union in a more global sense is how american saws fitting into what was going on the rest of the world in addition to reading deeply and widely in the literature, of course primary literature. would you recommend that graduate students need to to read more about the global history of the 19th century as well antebellum 19th century

this is a great party, standing with abraham lincoln, help solve slavery, at least get rid of slavery and the civil war. look at all the great things that have happened with the revolution and all the wealth and wages that have been created by free enterprise solutions instead of government solutions. that's all out the window right now as the party's devolved into a cult of donald trump. what's happening to liz, to me, is absolutely unconscionable. what happened to the party that could accommodate nelson rockefeller's views and ronald reagan and barry goldwater's views? now you're in lockstep with trump or you're out. >> here's the part i've never been able to understand. donald trump lost the presidential election by 7 million votes. this is the man they want to hitch their wagon to. why? >> it makes no sense to me. it makes no sense that 147 elected members and senators would not certify that election. that is almost as much afteren insurrectionalist event as january 6th was. >> does this help republicans win the majority in the house? i mean, i know that this decision and what mcc

, it'll be abraham lincoln and everett erickson. to republicans crossed the line to join us 44 democrats and break the filibuster. there is a sense of wanting to do something for your country. it's not just nostalgia. that made a much more easier to get it done. once he runs for office, as you point out, and he wins on the role of government, that's what his mandate was looking for in 1964. he had done what the civil rights bill. he got a tax bill through incredibly that day was a tax cut. that's what liberals before conservatives were against. he had been successful in the first period of time, he wins a landslide election and then as you say, he's got a big majority. even then he knows the window of opportunity is small so he better operate right away. he says to his staff, get off your butts, i may lose this quickly and there's a narrow window here. we've got to get everything through and by god, he did. medicare, medicaid, aid to education, housing reform, immigration reform, voting rights, and pr, pbs, permanent landmarks. but

tv, john stauffer talks about his book, "giants: the parallel lives of frederick douglass and abraham lincolne recently inaugurated barack obama. the national archives hosted the event and provided the video. >> today in the midst of a very historic week with the inauguration of our new president emme we have a fitting and timely lecture --

caller: i am a relative of abraham lincoln and although he was considered republican, that time, they were liberal republicans. whether he was a republican or democrat, he was a liberal all stop as far as the vaccination, i am fully vaccinated. i will still wear a mask other people outside do not know that i am fully vaccinated i have the card and they would probably stop me and we would have a confrontation if i didn't wear my mask stop i was a respiratory therapist and i know what viruses can do to the human body. also, i caught the virus from one of my patients 12 years ago. i have been medically disabled because i lost 68% of my lung capacity due to a virus, not the covid, but of regular virus. i lost 68% of my lung capacity. host: thanks for sharing your story. not your party, not sure conference but your thoughts this week on your gop colleagues in the house ousting ms. cheney from the leadership post. guest: i don't know much of what to say about the house republican conference. all i know is on january 6, an insurrection occurred on the u.s. capitol. it was an attack naches to

harding, and robert todd lincoln, abraham lincoln's only surviving said. president harding told the audience, "this memorial is less for lincoln as for those of us here today and those who follow after." the keynote address promoted equality among the races. an african-american, he spoke to a segregated audience and discussed the origins of discrimination by preparing the arrival of the mayflower, to the arrival of a sleep sheep with human cargo. -- slave ship with human cargo. ♪ >> follow us on social media at @c-span history, for more on this day in history clips and posts. >> sunday on "the presidency," a conversation about changing ideas on gender and how first lady's exercised power even before women had the vote. here is a preview. >> women's involvement in politics, particularly first ladies, went far beyond patronage. often historians describe patronage as the primary form of influence that women exercised in political life. however, women could serve as conduits of power for their male friends on a variety of issues. male friends took advantage of