i can see abigail adams sitting and clutching her scorching hot cup of joe, john adams saying sit down and drink your damn coffee, woman. she really was the brains of the outfit. my mother is overworked, tired, but her still solid body stood hard as a rock. i'm not going to cry, as a tear falls down from her face. don't cry, mom, don't cry. [cheers and applause] >> that was her first time ever. yay! and up next we have indiana telepenova. >> a recipe for water. start with the color magenta, a burning asphalt, of beach ball sighing out its life, a garden grown on accident after accident, add a father painting shelves on the cove, a pinch of guilt, statues of isabella butter flisse -- butterflies, and extinct alpha betts, a teaspoon of autumn leaves, a shepard playing with the winds, some animal begging for snow. mix vigorously like the mountain mixes up its slopes. preheat the bed of a star to -- 240 light-years away. thank you. and next is -- [cheers and applause] >> next is robin black. >> hi, robin! >> oh, ok. i had to know. this is called "eviction notice." the police turned us away

. >> guest: you mentioned joseph ellis' founding brothers and the biography of abigail adams. have you read and what do you think about david mccullough's john adams and ron chernow's bestseller on washington? >> guest: yes. i have not yet read the book on washington. i look forward to doing it, but i haven't done it. i did review john adams, the mccullough biography of adams for "the new york times", and i thought he did a lovely job of it. people criticize him for not paying much attention to john adams' thought. but i didn't think he was totally blif crouse of it -- oblivious of it, and he was more interested in other parts of adams' career. and, clearly, he managed to get a large part of the american reading public interested in john adams, and, you know, he became a great fan of john adams, and i'm a great fan of john adams, so i like the book, and i cheer for david mccullough's success. >> host: who was john hancock and why did he serve as president of the second continental congress yet not president? >> guest: well, hancock was a boston merchant who inherited, actually,

most, including duchess of devonshire, the subject of the very popular biography 10 years ago and abigail adams, who was the first lady jackie was on record as having to admire most. jackie also commissioned louis to write on how the powerful 18th woman were ahead of their time during the 18th 18th century and asserting their quality demand. and that book came out and falls down. the contention was that a great deal and a small group of women had a great deal of legal and social and educationally century which was later lost and not regained until modern times. she also published the diary of an independent debutante at the end of the 19th century called maverick and mode. she asked eugene kennedy, who is no relation to her first husband's family to expand and articles he had written for "the new york times" on the first female mayor of chicago, jane byrne and that became a novel called queen bee. and not all of these are sort of uncritical accounts of women in power. queen bee in many ways is about a figure who is sort of power-hungry and power mad and when the book was published, jackie choke

included in it were women she admired, the subject of popular biography 10 years ago and abigail adamsthe first lady jackie was on record of admiring the most. she wrote on how these powerful 18th century women were ahead of their time during the 18th century in asserting their equality to men. that book came out as false dawn because the contention was they had a greet -- this small group of women had a great deal of legal and social and educational quality in the 18th century which was later lost and not regained until modern times. she also published the diary of an independent depp by tonight called maverick in mauve. she asked eugene kennedy who is of no relation to expand and article he had written for the "new york times" on the first female mayor of chicago, jane burn, and that became a novel called "queen bee," and not all of these are uncritical accounts of women in power. "queen bee" is about a figure who is power hungry and power mad, and when the book was published, jackie joked with eugene kennedy saying you might have to leave chicago now, eugene. [laughter] she had surp

since abigail adams asked john to remember the ladies, and he didn't, and the ladies did not foment therevolution that they promised him they were going to do if he didn't remember them, that has been the, that has been the sequence and the trajectory, and that's what we need to change. no excuses power tool number two is define your term first before someone else defines you. we all know whoever defines the terms wins the debate. and i think just in redefining power i've given you an example of defining your own terms. use what you've got. again, as connie and i both took what was a liability to us in our youth, we hated that feeling of being different, of not being good enough, of not measuring up. but that's what propelled us into leadership, what gave us the passion for the poor, for the sick, for those who needed help in whatever way. use what you've got. i learned to embrace controversy. i learned to love -- how many of you love controversy? [laughter] i knew there'd be a few here. [laughter] how many of you hate controversy? see, most people really back off of controversy. but wh

since abigail adams asked john to remember the ladies, and he didn't, and the ladies did not foment the revolution that they promised him they were going to do if he didn't remember them, that has been the, that has been the sequence and the trajectory, and that's what we need to change. no excuses power tool number two is define your term first before someone else defines you. we all know whoever defines the terms wins the debate. and i think just in redefining power i've given you an example of defining your own terms. use what you've got. again, as connie and i both took what was a liability to us in our youth, we hated that feeling of being different, of not being good enough, of not measuring up. but that's what propelled us into leadership, what gave us the passion for the poor, for the sick, for those who needed help in whatever way. use what you've got. i learned to embrace controversy. i learned to love -- how many of you love controversy? [laughter] i knew there'd be a few here. [laughter] how many of you hate controversy? see, most people really back off of controversy. but w