i'm about to walk in there and talk about george eliot's love life, and her deep trauma and tears. walk into this audience that is the most emotionally avoidant -- this is not going to go well. but then when you start talking about a life deeply led the way george eliot lived or dorothy day, they lock in, and there's a quality of silence there i'd never heard in my speaking career. and that's because people are so hungry to at least have a forum to think about the things that matter most to them. they know what is important but they do not have the words and no one is talking to them in those terms the way martin luther king used to. so, there's this void in the public space. for politicians, i think obama did as well as could be expected. if our politicians could talk to that, i think there would be a resonance. people are so hungry for uplift, for someone to name something that inspires and uplifts. clinton unfortunately is so closed and walled off, and trump is his own weird -- charlie: that is part of the reason why michelle obama's speech was the most well-received. david: rig

when you start to talk about a life deeply led the way george eliot lifted or dorothy day, aey lock inand there's quality of silence there i'd never heard in my speaking career. and that's because people are so hungry to at least have a forum to think about the things that matter most to them. they know what is important that they do not have the words and no one is talking to them in those terms the way martin luther king used to. so, there's this void in the public space. i think obama did as well as could be expected. if our politicians could talk to that, i think there would be a resident. onance. people are so hungry for uplift, for someone to name something that inspires and uplifts. clinton is so walled off and --mp us his own weird charlie: that is part of the reason why michelle obama's speech was the most well-received. david: it was also about -- charlie: it was not political. it was about family, my children. david: and was also about the moral nature of the universe, the arc of justice -- the arc of history bends toward justice. its contains the seeds of own destruction. t

in 2018 he received the samuel eliot marston award from the constitutional museum for his body of work. for this evening, george will speak to us for about 30 minutes. then we will invite numbers of the audience to ask questions. please note that c-span is your taping our author event, so speak into the microphone clearly. they will be taping this presentation as well as the q and a. we invite everybody to come on up. if you have a book, george will sign it for you. we have some of his back lists here as well. we have to 1812 book that i spoke about, as well as the fic book. please join me and welcoming author george daughan. [applause] george: thank you for hosting this event. thank you to all these wonderful people who have come here. this book is entitled "revolution on the hudson." new york city and the hudson river valley in the american revolution. its objective is to explain the role of the hudson river valley in the entire revolution. so it's also a book about the whole revolution. because i have a different view of the role of the hudson river valley in the revolution, the book is a different view of t