two nights young benjamin franklin book is the part of our speaker series also thank you to mister swartz for his support allowing us to provide so many historians also the trustees and the council members who are with us tonight for the good work in support. the program will last an hour including a question and answer session that would have been written on notecards our volunteers handed out pencils in question cards we will be circulating later in the program happy to give you one to collect your questions also there will be a book citing in the smith gallery where the books will be sold so please join us for that. we are pleased to welcome nick bunker back the author of the empire on the edge that book was a finalist for the 2015 pulitzer prize in history and the george washington prize his most recent book is young benjamin franklin. we are delighted to welcome back our moderator who is presidential professor america at the graduate center the award-winning author several books including the sovereign people in the birth of american nationalism now of course, before we begin please

the nick bunker break counselor early life of benjamin franklin. we wrap up at 11:00 p.m. eastern with mit's deborah bluhm's report on the science behind and development of food safety regulations in the united states. that happens tonight i'll book tv. forty-eight hours of nonfiction fiction authors and books every weekend. television for serious readers. the full schedule is available on our website, but tv.org. >> host: robert, were showing the book, pu pope francis. >> the book is written mainly by economists. were writing it in response to the encyclical that came out a few years ago on the care of our common home. it's known as the pope's environmental encyclical. were trying to engage the pope in dialogue, a word he uses 25 times. hopefully fill in some blind spots that he has. we all have blind spots. that is kind of the aim. to fill in the blind spots about ways that we can make markets work as a caring society of fix big problems like poverty and environmental problems at the same time. >> host: you have michael novak during the intro and robert murphy doing the

benjamin franklin is a personal hero of mine. >> 43 states have laws stating the pledge has to be recited but students can opt out. seven states, iowa, hawaii, michigan, nebraska, vermont, wyoming and maine have no laws. here is a brief history lesson. the pledge was written in 1892 by francis bellamy, a l socialist minister. you know the phrase "under god?" that wasn't him. he didn't write that. in fact, it was president eisenhower who convinced congress to add it in 1954. parents are now weighing in on cook's decision. >> it does challenge me to think how do i feel about certain things. i am an america khan. i do understand things are going on that shouldn't be going on. >> i've been in the states 29 years. yes, my kids are born here. i love the fact that they recite it every morning at school. >> reporter: the board president says he wants feedback not on what he did, but he wants the public to suggest the names of other patriots, other great americans so that he says the booard can recognize those people. lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. >>> tropical storm michael is moving into the carol

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we share a common interest in benjamin franklin and a wonderful book you did on his sister jane, right? tell me how that story wove in and you brought women into the narrative. >> with the history of race, there's this sort of segregated history in our textbooks. with women they really remain protesting the beauty pageant in 1968. and that's kind of it and it doesn't make sense. it doesn't explain the world we live in now where partisanship and struggles for women's equality before the law are just explosively in confrontation with one another in our contemporary world. i started out wanting to write women's history and wound up writing political history. but trying to write political history that took women seriously as political actors. one way i tried to do that is both with individual characters. we might want to know more about jane franklin, just a compelling person. also all the decades women didn't have the right to vote and yet influenced american politics outside of electoral politics through the work of moral crusade which becomes just a key feature of the american political

biography that stand in the intersection between the arts and the sciences, because whether it was benjamin franklin ha steve jobs or leonardo da vinci, i thinks what gives creativity. steve jobs, whenever he did a product launch which shows street signs, showing that intersection of the arts a sciences. that's what leonardo da vinci's vitruvian man's all about. and when einstein was looking for the theories of relativity, he pulled out his violin to play mozart and of course benjamin franklinn flying a kithe rain, those otectricity experiments helped him understand then of checks, balances, pluses, minuses that we see in our constitution. was working on leonardo da vinci, the biggest insights i had was goinpage by page through the 7,200 pages of notebooks that he had left behind and i realized since i couldn't get steve job'sotes in the 1990s, because they were all on some computer where the operating system no longer worked, howonderful of a technology for the storage of information paper is. its battery never runs down. erating system never goe out of style and 500 years later, we just sit there

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