henry adams became involved in impleader ron after 1900. and goodness knows there were plenty who cared about it. it wasn't what concerned or changed the character always writing about. in this book i did not in the according to the calendar. i did not end according to the historic event it ended in 1900 but that was because at that point augusta was so ill she had to come back to the united states, he left paris and the was the end of my book. i had to leave a lot out of this book. i had to leave a lot of people out of this book otherwise it would have become a catalog, and catalogs are not generally very compelling reading. but think you for the question. i do want to make one point, however, which i didn't have time to talk about why i was giving my earlier talk, and that is that it was at the library of congress for this book that my research assistant, mike hill sound and let me to one of the greatest discoveries of my working life and that is the diary of wash work which was in the library of congress but wasn't known to be there beca

another very important piece in the cemetery here which is his monument to clover adams the wife of henry adams, the mysterious figure with a shawl over the head which is also to be seen in a duplicative version of the national portrait gallery. the great statue of general sherman stands at 59th street and the entrance to central park right across the plaza hotel also i think is the greatest sequester and a statue in america. here is this boy who was a shoemaker's son and he did indeed desire to excel and he did indeed xl and he did bring it home, and i want to read you something that he rode. this is years after coming back from paris after completing the sherman statute. writing to his friend who was a very good american painter who had also been in paris and old fellow telling him about coming home. i've had a wonderful experience and it's been surprising in many respects, one of which is to find out how much of an american i am. i belong in america, that is my home. he was ready to come home, and he felt he was coming home with the best in him that would be impossible if he stayed home. we

as henry adams said, the president is pure act. he literally did multitask.e your three letters simultaneously to three secretaries. if you entered the executive office and took your time walking across the space between the door and his desk, he would pick up a book and read a couple paragraphs as you were approaching him. he was a phenomenally fast moving and phenomenally receptive to indiscriminate information. i told you, i mentioned earlier on that he tended to memorize what he read. he read an average of four pages a minute, turning them over with extreme regularity. as he read, he had this photographic mind, which oddly enough, ronald reagan did too, of photographing the contents of each page. so much so that years later, in one documented, 20 years later, he could, at a whim, start reciting stuff that he had read 20 years before and never recited since. so he was a phenomenon in that sense, and that's how he managed to get such an extraordinary amount of work done, physical work, intellectual work, political work, during his short 60 year old life.é0

henry adams became involved in impleader ron after 1900. and goodness knows there were plenty who cared about it. it wasn't what concerned or changed the character always writing about. in this book i did not in the according to the calendar. i did not end according to the historic event it ended in 1900 but that was because at that point augusta was so ill she had to come back to the united states, he left paris and the was the end of my book. i had to leave a lot out of this book. i had to leave a lot of people out of this book otherwise it would have become a catalog, and catalogs are not generally very compelling reading. but think you for the question. i do want to make one point, however, which i didn't have time to talk about why i was giving my earlier talk, and that is that it was at the library of congress for this book that my research assistant, mike hill sound and let me to one of the greatest discoveries of my working life and that is the diary of wash work which was in the library of congress but wasn't known to be there beca

as henry adams said, the president is pure aft. he did multitask, dictated three letters simultaneously to three secretaries. if you entered the executive office and took your time walking across the space between the door and his desk, he'd pick up a book, read a couple paragraphs as you approached him. he was fast moving and phenomenally receptive to indiscriminant information. i mentioned early on he memorized what he read. he read an average of four pages a minute, turning them over with extreme regularity, and as he read, he had this photographic mind that oddly enough, ronald reagan did too, of photographing the contents of each page, so much so that years later in one documented case, twenty years later, he could act at a whim start reciting things he memorized 20 years before and had never recited sense. he was a phenomena in that sense, and that's how he mentioned to get such an extraordinary amount of work done, physical work, intellectual work, and political work during his short 60-year-old life. >> hi, first, thank you

it was the old henry adams--winter was city and summer was country. and the kind of mindless scattering in this green countryside not only messes up the environment and takes two million acres of farmland a year, but destroys the sense of abandoning on the one hand and a true link with the natural environment on the other hand. c-span: you say that there are 12 million bicycles bought a year in this country? >> guest: right. c-span: same--roughly the same number of cars bought? >> guest: yeah, 15 million cars, 12 million bicycles. c-span: is that number going up or down? >> guest: it's been static. the automobile--both cars and bicycles have been pretty static. c-span: what do people buy the bikes for? i mean, how many of them commute with it? do you know? >> guest: not a large percentage. it's very difficult... c-span: how does that compare with other countries? >> guest: oh, way down. i mean, we don't provide a place where bicycles can go. a lot of it is recreation. we've been building, with this transportation bill i was telling you about, some bik