i'm going to tell you about aaron burr and why i wrote a book about aaron burr. my book is "the heartbreak of aaron burr." i will tell you a little bit about the heartbreak of aaron burr but i can't tell the whole story without giving await ending and i don't want to give await ending and i'll tell you. why not just because i want you to buy the book and read the book and enjoy it and hang around to the end and it those do with the reason i wrote the book in the first place and this goes back to my experience of writing. my experience of reading and in particular my experience of listening to a question that my mother has been putting to me for the last 23 or 4 years, and the question i will get to in a moment, but it goes to the heart of why people write and why people read. i teach history at the university of texas. i also teach writing, and i teach writing to graduate students. the graduate students in my writing seminars were also just completed a couple days ago come from history. they come from communications, journalism. they come from the english departm

so, this was my entry into writing about aaron burr. but the heart of the story -- in fact, once again, the title of the book was going to be -- our proposed total was, it disappearance of theodosia burr. i thought that that is kind of intriguing. she disappeared, people don't just disappear. but my publisher thought that aaron burr had more cash. the name ehrenberg was a name that people knew. so, it became the heartbreak of aaron burr. it is the story of aaron burr who is considered generally to be one of the great scoundrel, villains, of american history. and i've always thought that the villains, the scoundrels, they're far more interesting than the heroes. i also thought that anybody who was despised by alexander hamilton, john adams, thomas jefferson, james madison, had to be somebody who had something going for them. so, i thought i would try to tell their story. but i would tell the story through their relationship between aaron burr and his daughter. because the story of aaron burr is fairly well known. i was not going to includ

the name aaron burr was a name people knew. it became "the heartbreak of aaron burr." it's the story of aaron burr, who is considered generally to be one of the great scoundrels, villains of american history. and i've always thought that the villains, the scoundrels, are far more interesting than the heroes. and i also thought that anybody who was despised by alexander trials such an attractive form for the reader? i'll tell you why they're an attractive form to the author. because, in the first place, trials have dialogue. and this is something you don't find a lot of in nonfiction. people talk to each other back and forth. er for it's rare you find a work of nonfiction where you get much in the way of dialogue, unless you're writing about a trial. and further more, unlike the ordinary conversation of you and me, where you wander around the topic and start over and all this. in trials, the dialogue always has a point. and there's a built in conflict. a protagonist and an antagonist and a resolution. there's a conviction or an acquittal . so, large part of my story is

around the same time, speaking of people who are jockeying for position, aaron burr, aaron burr wanted to be a brigadier general. he's politicking for position. he's playing footsie with the federalist. yeah, make i don't like the jeffsonnian republicans so much after all. yeah, i'd like to be a brigadier general. problem is he'd been so critical of george washington that that effort did peter out. there's a portrait of major general hamilton that's not well-nope. we don't know who the artist was. we don't know when it was painted, even what decade. he does have a federal era uniform on with a high collar. it's u.s. army. we don't know what the medal is on his lapel. it was donated around 1960 by john lawrence hamilton who went by laurie hamilton and hangs at cincinnati headquarters in washington, d.c. otherwise known as anderson house. one general who is not mentioned nearly as mention as jock exfor position is the second owner of our house ebenezer, jeddah's younger brother, huntington who writes to alexander hamilton and rightfully receives an appointment to serve of as a brigadier

we know how the story ends, he's going to be killed by aaron burr, and then a few other things, you know, these so-called rumors about scandals and so forth. and a little bit about his military accomplishments, so that's what i'm focusing on today because that's what we tend to not know, and here is a portrait by john trumble. like alexander hamilton, he also at one point served as an aide to general george washington during the revolution. he served the shortest. he was there for about three weeks, a very talented artist. this is his portrait that was used for the $10 bill. there's a lot more to him than that head. there's the entire full length portrait that sits in new york city hall. we've had the permission from city hall to reprice to hang in our house. i hope that's what you take away from today is the appreciation for the all the amazing accomplishments not just as an aide to washington. that's a heavy portion of it. you're going to see a lot more than that. starts out as a captain, and then he's later lieutenant colonel, and this is probably i'd say one of the best known portrai

a year later he wrote about the trial of andrew johnson, then he focused on aaron burr, next james madisonin 2021, he takes a look at george washington. in his words, his mastery of politics. >> david stewart on this episode of book notes plus. listen on c-span.org/podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. >> at today's white house re-think, the economic relief coordinator joint white house press secretary jen, he answered questions about the eviction moratorium and efforts to prevent evictions. >> hello everyone. >>

history and historical fiction snoring constitutional convention, the gifts of james madison, aaron burr's treason trial and the impeachment trial of president andrew johnson. won the washington writing award for best book, the history prize of the society of the cincinnati, and the prescott award of the national society of colonial dames of america. george washington's final battling, the epic struggle to build a capital city and a nation by robert watson delves into washington's involvement in the establishment of a capitol city and described how the process nearly tore our young and vulnerable country apart. watson is a professor, historian and author with over 40 published books and hundreds of scholarly articles. he has served as a visiting scholar at many historic sites including presidential libraries, museums and universities, and was an analyst for nbc and pbs for many years. several of his books have won awards including the nazi titanic, the ghost ship of brooklyn, an untold store-at the american revolution, and america's first crisis. welcome david and robert. >> i drew the str

brands talk about his biography of aaron burr.the new york politician and vice president who is most remembered for killing former president trudge -- alexander hamilton in a duel in 1804. mr. brands presented a collection of letters between burr, and his daughter the adagio. to account his political rise -- this was reported at the fair gallery of arts in washington d.c. in

then he focused on aaron burr and james madison. and now, he takes a look at george washington.nd, in david stewart's words, his mastery of politics. announcer: historian david stewart, on this episode of book notes plus. c-span.org/podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. ♪ announcer: c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we are funded by these television companies and more. ♪ midco supports c-span as well as these other partners to give you a front row seat to democracy. announcer: next, the vice chair of the joint chiefs of staff talks about defense technology with the newly founded emerging technologies institute. other topics included the covid-19 pandemic

then focused on aaron burr, james madison, now in 2021 he takes a look at george washington and in his words , his mastery of politics. >> of foreign minister south korea with more than 30 years working in international diplomacy with the eight secretary-general of the united nations january 2007. by that time he and his colleagues helped his impoverished and i war-torn country grow into one of the world's wealthiest. south korea is a model for other developing countries the soft-spoken bond hope to focus the united nations with similar economic growth to other areas of the globe but a series of crises over the next decade for the ambitious economics. that included the arab spring the ebola epidemic, new conflicts in central africa sudan russia's incursion in georgia and iran and north korea all against a backdrop of the growing impact of climate change. with the power of un to bear to solve the world crisis the un became the focus of sharp criticism after deadly cholera outbreak for the un peacekeepers that were there to restore order after an earthquake. in his new memoir united nati

that he focused on aaron burr, next james madison. now, he looks at george washington.n his words, his mastery of all the tics. -- politics. >> david stewart on this episode of book notes plus. listen on c-span/casts -- podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. ♪ ♪ >> virginia democratic congresswoman discusses u.s. maritime strategy at the hudson institute. she talked about the growing threat that china poses in the pacific and u.s. navy strategy to combat this. this is just over an hour. >> welcome to the hudson

he said, those two law books represented the impeachment of andrew johnson and the trial of aaron burr. when he was a young law student studying at william mitchell college of law, they would take turns arguing cases in the school of law, they would take turns arguing the impeachment of andrew johnson and the trial of aaron burr. he said to me, i wrote that opinion 40 years ago. he was a great artist and a sculptor. he painted that picture when he was in law school because those cases were so important to him. he said it was a very easy matter, because those cases stood for the proposition that no person, not even the president, is above the law. this is a good reminder, by the way, that just because berger was a republican appointed by nixon, but you cannot assume that justices on the supreme court are going to vote on the basis of political affiliation. something the public often believes. they have their own individual commitments to the constitution. their own sets of principles apart from any political affiliation. that was one instance where chief justice berger exercised that. o

and aaron burr, god knows, never wrote about it or said anything but washington, again, is not ashamed of it and one episode in particular involved with his stepdaughter, who do got epilepsy and dies at the age of 15 am a family dinner and he writes a moving alert about to an in-law and he does something which is he's gets a lot of plans for the next three months and cancelings them all, and he stays at mount vernon and he stayed with martha, and he and martha arrived together and they had never done that. what was a tremendous horseman and a great rider and grate athlete and he probably couldn't keep up with him and he would get impatient and just wasn't the best. but in this time period, he stayed with her and rode with her and it's not heroic. it's not more than you would hope anybody would do. but he did it. and it was a picture of the real man that meant something to him. >> that's an important insight as i think one of your contributions -- one of you're many is peeling back the layers of the onion and trying to get at the real washington which you said at the outset and i share

historical fiction exploring topics such as the constitutional convention the gift of james madison aaron burr's treason trial and the impeachment trial of president andrew johnson. he is one washington writing award for best book the history price of the society of cincinnati and the prescott award for the national society of o'neil america. george washington's final battle the epic struggle to grow the capitol city in the nation by robert p. watson delves into washington's involvement in the establishmentt of the capitol city and describes how the process nearly tore her young and old apart. robert p. watson is a professor historian and author with over 40 published books and hundreds of scholarly articles. he has served as a visiting scholar at many historic sites including presidential libraries museums and universities and who was an analyst for nbc, and cbs for manyou years. several of hisis books have won awards including the go ship of brooklyn and untold story of the american revolution and america's first crisis. welcome david and robert. >> the story i tried to tell was intriguing to

then focused on aaron burr, james madison, now in 2021 he takes a look at george washington and in his his mastery of politics. >> of foreign minister south korea with more than 30 years working in international diplomacy with the eight secretary-general of the united nations january 2007. by that time he and his colleagues helped his impoverished and i war-torn country grow into one of the world's wealthiest. south korea is a model for other

very famously, you know, someone like jonathan edwards, grandson is aaron burr, publishing the sermon in the hands of an angry god, and even in then a rate of reading among whites. and then there were more readers per capita than any other country, including britain. and certain technological developments will facilitate that. when you get, for example, the erie canal, you can actually now go all the way around america, just like you can go around britain, you can go from chicago, across the great lakes to buffalo and then across the erie canal, albany, the hudson to new york, the florida coast, new orleans, up the mississippi to chicago. so letters can travel faster. ships can travel faster, eventually, of course, you're going to get railroads by the end of my time period. 1840. it's a remarkable letter writing and who is franklin? he's a postmaster. okay? all of these guys are newspaper guys and so five of them are newspaper scribblers and the sixth, george washington, reads more newspapers than anyone around. but they're also letter writers and our audience can read these letters f

and aaron burr and various other people considered conspiring. various people in kentucky and tennessee spent some time, people like john severe in kentucky, spent some time thinking about whether spanish -- an alliance with spain would serve them better than an alliance with the united states. the united states were at a real problem. this map is envisioning a system that will encourage the rapid occupation and settlement of a gigantic new area of land. as people take up the challenge or the promise of that possibility, there is very good possibility that the united states would not be the kind of super intending power that would best serve their interests. and there's a period in the early -- in the early republic when a lot of people in the southwest were more interested in or as interested in spain as a possible ally as they were in the united states. >> wasn't the oregon territory -- i may be overstepping the bounds of this class, but wasn't the oregon territory split between britain and the united states for a good, long time? >> the oregon

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"in the evening, the vp, aaron buhr joined us and gave a sentiment i was afraid would pruvlg fatal in its party. ry have no wish to do it. i had to throw in leslie as burr from the hamilton play. jen, that's for you, really. the last sunday of the sermon. is the last sunday sermon given in congress. it's actually holding religious services in the house chamber in the capitol building because it's the largest single chamber in the young city. so, the last sunday sermon of that session i've been focusing on is in may of 1802, a few months later and we know about it through cutler's journal, where he said he continued the hall where he preached. he had the same reputation, in federalist minds as leland, the cheese monger. an illiterate man preaches in the same style. this was probably one motive the democrats had in choosing a chaplain with this stamp. regardless of his style, you have to admit he's tone deaf because he chose to preach the biblical passage about lots leaving saudm and this is on the eve of washington leaving d.c. it's stranger than neither reed nor cutler mention that fact without any sarcasm. he headed for chesapeake bay and own the phila