so, he will step aside for john adams. now, we don't know if this works, we've never actually changed our presidents. so, will the people expect this? we don't know. the other thing to remember is that john adams was contested in his election. he actually had to fight a battle against his opponent who was thomas jefferson. now, these two have been friends, obviously, they wrote the declaration of independence together. but now opposite sides of the fence, they don't even want to talk to each other. so, the election is very ugly. it is very nasty, close, it is for us today normal presidential election. john adams wins by three electoral votes, only slightly more than half. we never had a president who got only half of the votes. we've never had a president who had to really fight for an election. and of course, the other problem in those early days is that if you come in second, you are vice president, which means the new president is one party, vice president of the other party just pick any modern election you like and pu

john adams wins by three electoral votes so slightly more than half. we have never had a president who got only half the votes, we have never had a president who had to really fight for an election and of course the other problem in the early days is if you come in second you are vice president which means the new president is one party, the new vice president is the other party, just pick any modern election you like put the two opponents together for four years as the executive and you can see how neither of them would be particularly happy. so john adams and thomas jefferson are not happy to be standing up in the front of the room together. this is a full house that day, the balcony, the seats, you've got most of the government here. a lot of curiosity but you can also figure about half of the men in this room are not very happy to see john adams standing up there, the other half of the men in the room are not very happy to see thomas jefferson standing up there and generally speaking nobody is very happy that george washington is leaving us in this

and it wasn't just john adams. other delegates too were starting to get this message from their own constituents and on friday june the 7th 1776 this man richard henry lee a member of the virginia delegation delegation. introduced to the continental congress the first formal proposal for american independence in that body's history a resolution to declare. let's read it to declare that these united colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent states that they are absolved from all allegiance to the british crown and that all political connection between them and the state of great britain ought to be finally dissolved. two days of intense debate followed richard henry lee's resolution though the outcome of that debate may not be the result. you are expecting. richard henry lee john adams and other delegates in favor of independence didn't have the votes. to carry the day at least not yet. so the members did what congress has always done best they kicked the can down the road. they delayed a final vote

john adams doesn't get free speech . john adams gets a lot and his partner madison gets even more champion freedom of speech is this is an act, against john adams form a political party that will be the dominant political party all the way to a lincoln . you and i have to respect that. he creates a newspaper empire of affiliated newspapers that support his way ofthinking about the world . he's in that respect he creates fox news network. he understands the democratic newspaper culture of america. he's always saying don't write adsagainst hamilton. rip him to shreds . he's too good a newspaper granular. you've got to go after him. so there's a reason the guy is on mount rushmore. i criticize him because it's something that's really important any in the slavery issue, he gets worse over time. he found a political party that's basically as a southern base, here's the relevance of this today. today party, and both parties have this but i'm talking about therepublican party . liz cheney, i think in the end you have to protect

and it wasn't just john adams. others were also starting to get this message from their own constituents. and a man of the virginia delegation introduced the first formal, a revolution to declare that these united colonies ought to be free and independent states. but them and the state of great britain and they ought to be finally dissolved. two days of intense debate but the outcome of that debate may not be the result that you're expecting. others in favor of independence didn't have the votes to carry the day, at least not yet. so the members did what congress has always done best, they kicked the can down the road. they declared a final vote and they agreed instead to set up a committee to study the issue. resolved that the first revolution be postponed, and in the meantime, lest any time should be lost, in case the congress does agree, a committee to be apounced to prepare a declaration to the revolution. this is hardly the rousing nation birthing moment that patriots might have been hoping for. john adams vow

washington does not dies 1799 the capital city finally opens on november 1, 1800 year later when john adamsmoves in. it was not a city we know today, everybody. a couple of buildings, fields of mud because they cut everything down. adams was disgusted and abigail even more so by the presence of slaves building our city which is quite ironic. but because we did not have the money would have to rely on slave labor. one interesting story i fleshed out in the book one of the folks that help survey and set up was benjamin banneker a former slave in extraordinary self-taught engineer, architect, astronomer, surveyor who works with lafond surveying the city. that is kind of poetic. adams was disgusted by the sight of slaves building a city. only six rooms in the white house were finished really roof leaks, there's no place for abigail to hang her laundry to get running water. in the building or reek of fresh plaster all night and all day long was the hammering and sawing of construction. it was not the city it was. adams did not play hardly any role in any of it which is odd because john adams was

and john adams, he really good book on the adams family.est customer you might think that jefferson is great in thomas jefferson it is soo ideological he cannot her what it does not want to hear pretty to sound familiar we have the problem today and i am so impressed washington who does not have strong ideological eocommitments, let's get to the facts. i want to hear both sides carefully and then i will make up my mind. so jefferson is not the world's best listener. john adams is at the world's best listener and some of these people are better protecting it. but now washington substance, you do. just like franklin, he understands 24 dive printed in the joint or die appears in may of 1754 and on the same page, is actually reference to the young officer george washington. benjamin franklin talking about george washington and age 22 predict and understand this from a military point of view and list the colonies hang together, in 1776 they're done for. so the continental ideas and whose at his right hand throughout the american revolution. basi

they say it was andrew jackson who put it in, who defeated john quincy adams of adams. both sides had particularly nance nasty campaigns. when rachael suddenly died, before his victory, jackson made it known that he believed the assault on her character and good name, killed his wife. he never forgave adams. grief stricken the widower president, brought seeds from the his wife's favorite trees, and planted them outside the white house in her memory. the story is more fiction than fact probably, neither jackson or any of his contemporaries ever mentioned the tree, and it does not appear in the earliest photos of the white house. or does not in any way, take from the love story, that the -- over the centuries. it may be the most famous, but the jackson magnolia, is far from the only tree planted in the white house grounds. the states to the year 1900, and marks the location of some large trees and shrubs. that's all of those tiny dots are. this is about the same amount of trees and shrubs on the grounds today it's about 500. beginning with rutherford hays in the 18 sevent

. >> starting with this little tidbit, john adams allegedly believed july 2nd would be celebrated insteadhe day congress actually voted to separate from the british, but americans ended up going with the date written on the declaration of independence. >> which was july 4th. >> yes, you got it right. >> also this independence day became a federal holiday back in 1870, and if you're a fan of celebrating july 4th with a fireworks display, you may have john adams to thank, in a letter to his wife, he suggested that the future celebration include illumination. >> i like that. illumination. >>> speaking of fireworks, here's a throwback from the launch of the world's biggest firework to date. >> the nearly five foot wide, 2800 pound expsi of the town's annual winter carnival back in february of last year 20, 20. >> a 26-foot specially built mortar was required to successfully launch the record-breaking firework. >> wow. polka is coming up. >>> from high atop tom's restaurant i >>> from high atop tom's coney island restaurant. ♪ the world news polka. >> trying to work here. ♪ that's the world ne

here we have john adams again. john adams 30th regimen infantry enlisted in wilmington, march 3rd, 1865 and this link right here will take you right to john adams's biography. let's go to muster out real quick. now i'm and the muster out is sort of the same thing, except it has a little bit more detail it shows movement over time that where men enlisted is not necessary where they mustered out. there's also more reasons for mustering out. like why did you leave the army? you might have left it for several reasons you might have just served your full term and you're done. you might have been discharged for disability. you might have been captured or in 72 cases. you might have died during the civil war 72 of our 256 men 72 of our 250 soldiers to be precise all that all the deaths are are soldiers none of them are sailors during the war. that's a staggering figure about 28% 28% death rate, which is far above. the overall usep mortality rate actually, so these men really are our subset of the larger usbt story these m

sadly, john adams was guilty of that in that letter. in mock fear, he characterized women as a tribe more numerous and powerful than any other group of disenfranchised people. john adams played his own variation on the old saw that the law gave women little power because nature gave them so much. depend on it, he teased. we know better than to repeal our masculine systems. although they are in full force, you know that they are little more than theory. we dare not exert our power in its full latitude. we are obliged to go fair and softly and in practice we are the subjects. and what he's talking about is, of course, the punitive sexual power that women have over men. a power that he refers to as the despotism of the petticoat. you'll understand a petticoat is worn in this area. you get that, right? what's sort of more ironic about that is the law gave men almost absolute power over their wife's sexuality. he could only cling to this fantasy that women were so powerful the only thing that men could cling to was the name of masters. so th

it took a lot to silence or befuddle the verbose john adams. which should give testament to the thorniness of the woman problem and the contestant nature of the seeming silence? people were thinking about it. after the revolution the putative silence was broken by deafening crashes all through the new union as state courts dealt with a problem of loyalist properties. okay. so on the face of very simple if a loyalist, man, so somebody in america who's loyal to the crown he sees, you know runs off runs to england. the new state is allowed to seize his land and as a punishment for treason, and of course not only with the man lose his land but his heirs would lose it as well. but what if as in several cases the property in question came to the math through his wife that is his wife's father had entailed land to pass through his daughter to her children's circumventing the husband. yes in the cases that came before the court the wives had fled the country with her husband's but this was a question. could that be interpreted as a political statement

i like john quincy adams. hn quincy adams was probably the most intelligent and cultured president that we ever had. this is a young man who went with his father, john adams, to russia, to meet the russian ambassador i think at age 17 or 16, travel all over europe as a young man in the ports of france, etc., etc. also he was a president who faced some tough, difficult transitions in america's early years. the beautiful thing about john quincy adams, i read a biography years ago -- i don't remember who did it -- the beautiful thing about it is that after he was defeated by jackson, he went back to serve in the house of representatives, which i think was a wonderful thing and is a wonderful thing, and served the rest of his life in the house. so i like john quincy adams. host: when did you realize that you like john quincy adams, and what do you think lead to that? when was this first a thing for you when you realize that? caller: when i read his biography. it is an encouragement to everyone, read the biographies

i would go to really good research libraries and get in those card catalogs and look up john quincy adamshis last name. how many books are there by john quincy adams? making that list, it was astonishing how many books there were. how many strange books. herbert hoover wrote a mining textbook. who knew? also, there were these really intimate and important books. i started to realize that abraham lincoln, calvin coolidge, ulysses s. grant, jefferson, adams, there were so many examples of these books really mattering. that is when i started to realize that there was a story to tell here. susan: your book is also, and you alluded to this, the history of nonfiction book publishing in america. why do you tell that part of the story? craig: that is what helps us realize how important these books have been. even if you read a good biography about a lot of the presidents i talk about, their books don't come up. there books are not central. -- their books are not central. biographers and historians have a lot of work to do. they are worrying about the white house, policies, and legislative debate.

i like john quincy adams. ncy adams was probably the most intelligent and cultured president that we ever had. this is a young man who went with his father, john adams, to russia, to meet the russian ambassador i think at age 17 or 16, travel all over europe as a young man in the ports of france, etc., etc. also he was a president who faced some tough, difficult transitions in america's early years. the beautiful thing about john quincy adams, i read a biography years ago -- i don't remember who did it -- the beautiful thing about it is that after he was defeated by jackson, he went back to serve in the house of representatives, which i think was a wonderful thing and is a wonderful thing, and served the rest of his life in the house. so i like john quincy adams. host: when did you realize that you like john quincy adams, and what do you think lead to that? when was this first a thing for you when you realize that? caller: when i read his biography. it is an encouragement to everyone, read the biographies of th

most famous book of all is john quincy adams. picture in his location of capitol building. of course, andrew jackson won the popular vote and got majority in the congress and they didn't let john quincy adams accomplish very much and so adams left office, woodiest , and theyarrested all of him le house of representatives and he had been elected senator by the state legislature in massachusetts but willing elected to the house of representatives, he was elected by the people and he always considered that to be the greatest honor he had ever received. became famous and known as old man eloquent, but he was sitting there at that seat when he had a stroke and carry intoed the speaker's office where he died, members of congress with proper attire in his desk at the speaker's office. he was plan to go giver a speech. they were giving him medals to the general in the mexican war. he thought that was the most unrighteous war and nobody should get a medal for serving in an unrighteous war. his ghost is still trying to give the speech in statuary hall. i like to go to house receptions

although i will say i think david morris' portrayal of washington and john adams is superb. and i think those -- the best version, i think, jeff daniels says -- an all right job in the crossing. but nobody beats david morris. >> and all portray him too old. >> that's what rob says. he's too old, yes. he looks old. but he gets the composure, the reserve, the dignity. he nailed it with that. >> rob is sitting off camera here right now just -- shrugging his shoulders and i'm not even on the panel -- yeah, name dropped. >> maybe daniel morgan. >> that's who i was going to say. the big leagues. >> even if it's just beafd on cowpens, with a really tiny force at the end of his tether, and basically his tactics inspired green's at guilford courthouse where they basically, you know, beat the crap out -- they lost the battle but they decimated the british ranks. so yeah. i mean -- >> that's what i was going to say. that's who i was going to say. you got this gruff kind of soldier who's leading and inspiring the soldiers. but he's also taking advantage of as much information as he's go

so did his friendly rival john adams who wrote of the stream to see rising in america and liberty inhem. you say it, it is impossible, and i should agree with you on this, i would still say let us try the experiment regularly and, that each government continue. thank you. [applause] [applause] [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [applause] [inaudible]. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪♪ [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. the hellenic history centers human research center. >> i was born in north carolina as i mentioned and probably one of the more significant formative events in my life was when i was nine years old, my mother died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage and went to bed on a sunday night and woke up monday morning and she was

most famous ghost of all is john quincy adams, this is our painting from the corridor of adams in his location in the capitol building. now, this was when the house was meeting in what's now statuary hall and john quincy adams was actually elected president in that room. he's the last president to be elected by the house of representatives because there was no majority in the electoral college in 1824. of course, andrew jackson had won the popular vote and got the majority in the congress and they didn't let john qu anymorey adams was defeated in next election and left office and they elected him all of the rest of his wife to the house of representatives. he had been elected obviously by the house as president he had been elected senator by the state legislature in massachusetts but being elected to the house of representatives he was elected by the people and that was the greatest honor he had ever received. so he served 17 years in the house chamber and became famous. he was known as old man eloquent but he was sitting there at the seat work when he had a stroke and carried into th

he's a biographer of george washington and john adams. i can't read the names of the books and awards but i prefer to tell you about john the man. though his parents were from west virginia he grew up in galveston texas according to his biography his mother was college educated in the 1920s, taught school for 11 years until she was banned by west virginia law for marrying. his father attended college on a baseball scholarship in the 1920s but the depression ended his academics. he took a job in texas and they had one son in 1940. john is a bachelor's in houston university and masters in history from baylor university. although he is retired and hasn't stopped him from attending and speaking at seminars and these kind of events lecturing on podcasts and spending time. he and his wife and therefore cats live near atlanta but there's one more thing he likes to share, his love of baseball. the first game he's always 1947 between pittsburgh when jackie robinson scored the winning run. especially to boston to see the red sox. for those of us in

this is a national holiday, but more than that, you read john adams, he wrote to his wife, right afterbe solemnized with pomp, parade, and shows illumination from one part of the country to the other, that is what we do, a reminder of the spirit of the people who birthed this country, those who sustained it and those who hold it together today, i am honored. >> beautifully put. >> 245 years, of american independences thanks to sacrifices made by generations of u.s. servicemen and women, including tens of thousands that serve overseas right now. tonight. we'll head to george washington former headquarter westpoint, where a new generation is training to lead the millions who volunteer to serve in america's military. >> ♪ ♪ >> on hills of hudson value, are born america's greatest leaders, douglas mccarther, eisenhower and general patton graduated from elite u.s. military academy at west point network. >> the girl that came here was nervous and scared. >> growing up in texas, kennedy it no family connection to the military, but it was a gut feeling she said that called her to westpoint. >>

so did his friendly rival john adams who wrote of the stream to see rising in america and liberty in it, it is impossible, and i should agree with you on this, i would still say let us try the experiment regularly and, that each government continue. thank you. [applause] [applause] [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [applause] [inaudible]. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪♪ [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. 's weekdays on c-span to our intellectual, every sunday, you find events unexplored nations past on american history to be on sunday, book tv brings you the latest nonfiction books and authors, it is television for serious readers. learn discover explore weekends on "c-span2". ♪ ♪♪ weekend this on "c-span2" are an intellectual, every saturday, american history tv has american stories on sundays, book tv gives you the latest nonfiction books and authors. "c-span2" funding comes from these television companies are more including others pretty. >> world of change, today reliable internet connection nobody

memorial, i could not get anywhere with him, we agreed to disagree on, that how about we build one for john adams instead. he did not own slaves to principle, build statues for people that embody our ideals, and we went further, and how about john quincy adams, his son, first nonfounding father president, not only became president only president that went back to congress. to beat an a-- to get rid of slavery, quincy adams died on congress 4, while he did a speech. these are stories of american history that we're not teaching our kids, we have spent so much time talking about how we have fall up short of our ideals, we have forget everyone what our ideals were in the first place. a good time to remind ourselves of what america is about as an idea, not just a place. >> thank you, i did not know that. you have taught me something. with that one example. i think that you know -- if. >> if i could go a second further on that. talk about cancel culture, there was cancel culture in democratic party when john quincy adams was a congressman, one step further, he was barred from saying the worth slavery,

i think the portrayal of washington and john adams is superb and i think that's the best version. i think jeff daniels does an all right job in "the crossing" but nobody beats david morris. >> you all portray him too old. >> that's what rob says. he says he's too old. he looks old, but he has the composure, the reserve, the dignity. he nails it with that. >> rob is sitting off camera here right now just so like i'm not even on the panel and i'm being -- yeah -- name dropped. >> was it morgan? >> that's what i was going to say. >> even if it's just based with a tiny force at the end of his tether and basically inspired greene's at gillford courthouse where they basically beat the crap out of -- they lost the battle but they decimated the british ranks. so, yeah, i mean -- >> that's what i was going to say. that's what i was going to say. i mean, you've got this gruff kind of soldier who's leading and inspiring, you know, the soldiers underneath him, but he's also taking advantage of as much information as he's got and using it. and the way he's able to -- i just really love the fac

he's a biographer of george washington john adams.le i can't read them all, i prefer to tell you more about god. although his parents were from west virginia, he grew up ine texas. according to his biography, his mother was college educated in the 1920s, taught school for 11 years until banned by west virginia law. attending college in the 1920s the depression and ofsc his academics and took a job in texas, they had one son john in 1940. john has a bachelors in history from eastern university and masters in history for baylor university. although he's retired, he hasn't stopped from speaking seminars, lecturing on podcasts and spending time writing which is his biggest passion. he and his wife andat their forecasts live near atlanta but there is one more thing john likes to share, his love of baseball. first major league game he saw was 1947 between pittsburgh and brooklyn dodgers when jackie robinson scored the winning run. john was hooked for life. like any good historian, he timed his research trip around games he wanted to see, es

as a a biographer of george washington and john adams. i can read the name of his books and awards prefer to say more about john, the man. although john's parents were from west virginia he grew up in galveston, texas. according to his biography his mother was college educated in the 1920s, taught school for 11 years until she was banned by west virginia law from marrying. his father also attended college on a baseball scholarship in the 1920s but the depression ended his academics. he took a job with union carbide in texas, he had one sonn john covid 1940. john has a batch as in history from sam houston university and a masters in history from baylor university. although he is retired it has not stopped him from attending and speaking94 at seminars having podcast spend times writing which iss his biggest passion. there is one more thing john likes to share, his love of baseball. the first major league game he sows in 1947 between pittsburgh and the brooklyn dodgers when jackie robinson scored the winning run. john was hooked for life. tho

or john quincy adams. both of them had extraordinary x presidencies. carter winning the nobel prize. john quincy adams, an abolitionist. i think it was something like 16 years in congress. huge figures as human beings, but their performance isn't as high as some of the other presidents. the 25 year rule is a good one. i wish it could be 10 years. it's hard to get into papers these days. you have to wait in order to be able to resurrect those. sometimes it's fun to watch. why does one president start moving upwards? grant, suddenly everybody started reassessing grant. a new biography on coolidge or gerald ford or jimmy carter can work its way into. it's also books matter. a biography of harry truman and he started moving into one of the top-ranked presidents. his very right for someone to do a book on james madison. he's been underestimated as a president. you might start seeing madison rise. do you wait 20 years? it was a decision we made and we did not want to start excluding presidents so we decided to include them all. host: books matter. i think our

he's a biographer of george washington and john adams. but i can't read the names of his books and awards i prefer you tell more about john -- although his parents were from west virginia he grew up in galveston texas but according to his biography his mother was college-educated 1920 taught 11 years until she was banned by west virginia law from marrying. his father attended college on a baseball scholarship in the 1920s with the depression with the depression ended his academics. took a job with union carbide in texas and he had one son johnny in 1940. john has a bachelors in history from sam houston university masters in history a from baylor university. although he is retired it hasn't stopped him from attending and speaking at seminars at these kind of events and lecturing and spending time writing which is ou passion. he and his wife carol and therefore live near atlanta but there is one more thing john likes to share his love of a stall. the first major league game he saw saw was a 19 person between pittsburgh and the brooklyn dodge

and this july 4th, let's rekindle john adams rays of ravishing light and glory and celebrate them, despite differences, as one american people. jenny me now is conservative author, filmmaker, and host of her own podcast. and dr. carl swain, former princeton and vanderbilt professor. carol, i want to start with you. we are all for good inclusion and making every citizen a part of this ongoing american experiment. but talk to me about the habit of dividing people along racial,, and religious lines. and what that does to our unity, particularly now? >> i can tell you that i find it deeply offensive and i believe that it is destroying our nation and it is weakening our nation before the world. the only people who benefit from what is taken place are our foreign enemies. and i think that the american people are rejecting this. everything they seem to do seems to be about turning down america instead of building it up. they are bringing the american people together, because across political lines i believe that we've had enough. >> raymond: a very quick question, what your political hat on me fo

it's john adams and ben franklin are meeting with the hell brothers to discuss. the peace commission the peace commission, you know that's only a few months after they signed the declaration. yeah. yeah. yeah, i think a good word is is the fragility of the whole thing. i think yeah, people don't realize how fragile everything was and that it was all yeah, it could have all gone away anytime. they're at numerous points throughout the war. so it's a it's pretty amazing that it did fall into place the way did it's this we got a little over 10 minutes left. let me i'm gonna throw hand grenade into this. not just one of the course obviously we are dealing with a bass pandemic inoculations vaccinations, washington. introduces inoculation or very least and to the kind of army. so with that being said besides it's the small box inoculation. what is one thing on the periphery that actually let me go back to that. let me ask. is that a good idea? what are you on the view of smallpox the epidemic that the belief that smallpox would have been a major player if washington doe

we are good, inventive, loving people in this july 4th let's rekindle john adams's rays of ravishingte and glory to celebrate this. despite our differences as one american people. joining me now is dennis desousa, conservative opera, filmmaker, host of the dennis desousa podcast and doctor carol swain. i want to start with you. we are all for inclusion and making every citizen a part of this ongoing american experiment. but talk to me about the habit of dividing people along racial, sexual and religious lines and what that does to our unity particularly now. >> i can tell you i find it deeply offensive and i believe that it is destroying our nation and it is weakening our nation before the world. the only people who benefit from what has taken place our our foreign enemies and the american people are rejecting this, the democratic party, everything they seem to do seems to be about turned down america instead of building it up and they are bringing the american people together because across political lines i believe we've had enough. >> put your political head on, what do you make o

he's a biographer of george washington and john adams. while i can't read the names of his books and awards i prefer to take more about john amend. although his parents were from west virginia, he grew up in galveston texas. according to his biography his mother was college educated in the 1920s, taught school for 11 years until she was banned by west virginia law for marrying. his father also attended college on a scholarship of expression and it is academics. he took a job with union carbide in texas and that one son in 1940. john has a bachelors in histories from sam houston university and the masters in history from baylor university. although he is retired he hasn't stopped from speaking seminars, these kind of events, and lecturing on podcast and spending time writing which is his biggest passion. he and his wife and their four cats live in atlanta. but there's one more thing john likes to share, his love of baseball. the first major league game he saw was in 1947 between pittsburgh and the brooklyn dodgers when jackie robinson score

his biographer of george washington and john adams. books and words of tell you more about john ferling the man. he's from west virginia, he grew up in galveston, texas. and according to his biography has other was college-educated it in 1920 impossible for 11 years until she was banned by west virginia law. his father also college on a baseball scholarship in the 1920s the depression and it is academics. he took a job with the texas and had one son john in 1940. john has a bachelors in history and a masters in history from another university. although he retired it has not stopped him from attending and speaking at seminars. in these kind of events and lecturing on podcasts and sing for writing which is his biggest passion. in his wife carol the are here in atlanta. but more and more things that john like to share. his love of baseball, the first major league that is always 1945 between pittsburgh and the brooklyn dodgers when jacky robinson scored the winning run. he was hooked for life is like any good historian, he had researched r

and we have richard bernstein and new book "the education of john adam." . >>... . this program filled life from the reading room in mount vernon is the official book launch of patrick o'donnell's new book the indispensable's with the subtitle the diverse soldier marines who shaped the country,formed the navy and road washington across the delaware . officially released by atlantic public press today. i want you all to do with the number of autographed copies that are going out as gifts to people who submit question for this event. we have exciting questions like that. please also during tonight talked to submit questions, let us know what you want to know that patrick and we can ask those questions tonight. this is a great book. i couldn't put it down over the last week. it was reviewed just today in the "wall street journal." the it a novel like account of the necessity to or you're about to hear about from patrick. fast-paced writing. building those very, very quickly. it's an exciting story and the slot to hear from this great account of united states. to tell y

do want to mention one upcoming programs, richard stbernstein in his new book, the education of john adams. it's an exciting event,, please consider joining us wednesday night. live from the reading room here in mount vernon, the official launch of patrick o'donnell's new book the indispensable's subtitle diverse marine to shape the country and maybe in broke washington across the delaware. we have a number of autographed copies going out to people who submitted questions, who got exciting questions wind up. let us know what you want to know from patrick and we can ask those questions tonight. this is a great book, i couldn't put it back down this past week. they called it a novel like account which you are about to hear from patrick. it moves very quickly, you learn more about gunpowder than you think you might. it's an exciting story and a lot to hear. to tell you a little bit more about patrick, he won't tell you this himself, he's a bus going military historian, expert on the unit, this is his second book in the revolutionary war period. the first one, washington's immortal, the untowa

gunpowder is the crucial necessary as john adams says. the colonists had 28 guns, they had no gunpowder and the british knew it and theytried to disarm us through gunpowder . it would be the contact that the marble headers had with spain that brought in that crucial gunpowder but it would also be a novel way that washington would try to capture more gunpowder by attacking the british stores at halifax. so he needed a ship or ships to do that operate john glover to create a navy. and the navy which is really kind of preposterous is to take basically afishing boat that john glover had, the hannah which was about 74 tons . and somehow take on the greatest be the will of the world at the time , butthat's what they did . and they attacked the british ships. and the story of the navy is extraordinary. it's some of the most colorful captains in american history. captain roy, the red dragon that has the giant cloak of a red cloak that has an incredible sense of humor . cyan martindale who decides to oust six guns, elaborate amount of money but as

gunpowder is necessary as john adams says the colonist had plenty of guns but no gunpowder. in the british knew it and they tried to disarm us through gunpowder but it would be the context that the marvel headers had with spain that brought in the gunpowder but it would also be a novel way that washington would capture more gunpowder by attacking the british stores but he needed a ship or ships to do the operation so he turned tod john glover to create a navy and the navy which is preposterous is to take a fishing boat that john glover had which was about 74 tons and somehow take on the greatest navy of the world the royal navy, that's exactly what they did and they attacked british ships. in the story of the navy is extraordinary and some of the most colorful captains in american history captain, the red dragon that has a giant float that has an incredible sensef of humor, martindale who decides to spend in a lavish amount of money but as soon as his ship gets out of port he's immediately captured by the british, dianebrbr martindale ss at his crew to british at a trial. he

listen to the words of abigail adams wife of john adams writing to her son john quincy during the war. abigail is trying to persuade her son to get on a boat across the atlantic. and join his father in france to help the cause of freedom. john quincy doesn't want to go he'd rather go to harvard to college. his mother has a different sense of his obligations. here's a piece of what she wrote him. these are the times in which a genius would wish to live. it is not in the still calm of life that great characters are formed the habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulty. she says contending with difficulties great necessities call out great virtues and form the character of the hero and the statesman. now i put the question. do you ladies and gentlemen if you got a letter like that from your mother? what would you do? you get on the boat, you know you would you get on that boat the character of the hero and the statesman is forged in the fires of a great contest of great difficulty in the crucible of war and war has come upon them. with a firm alliance on the prote