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pension conversation with joseph ellis and that colonial period of time is his new book the cause. thank you very much. >> booktv coverage of this year's national book festival. and now from vermont he joins us life to take your calls on the american revolution, the founding fathers. you said with j your interview earlier that the american revolution or rebellion is a power issue not a money issue. can you explain that? >> and then to attacks on —- tax the colonies and pose legislative mandates and then to increase revenue and increase the size of national debt. and then with the amount of money collected and how much they are taxing as. and to be taxed without our consent. and do you control us? so do we have the authority to govern. >> so what was the communication between the colonies and london? >> remember they don't have cell phones. distance made a different any 1f century that's hard for us to comprehend if we don't live in that farm country. anbut that trip across the took six weeks across the sometimes longer. could go and you could get a response. and when atoms abigail

that was joseph ellis talking about his newest book the american revolution and its discontents and now from vermont, professor ellis joins us live. we will take your calls on the american revolution lland founding fathers, numbersare up on the screen .be 748-8200 for those of you on the eastern central time zone . 748-8201 if you live out in the mountain and pacific time zones and there's a third line set aside for text messages if you want to send a text message with aquestion or comment , 202 748 8903. reminder that that is only for text messages. please include your first name and your city. we will begin taking your calls injust a minute . professor ellis, you said during her interview with david rubenstein a little bit earlier that the american revolution or the american rebellion is a power issue, not a money issue. could you explain that? >> i'll do my best briefly. the british attempt to tax the colonies and to impose legislative mandates on them was officially driven by the desire to increase revenue and reduce the size of the national debt which was a big debt. $147,000. but

welcome to our show joseph ellis. >> pleasure being with you, david. >> for those who don't know joseph ellis he is one of the country's leading scholars on the revolutionary war era. he is a person whose written 13 books on the subject. he is a graduate of the college of william and mary, a got his phd at yale. his opener of the national book award. his latest book is an explanation of why we went to war with the british and why the british ultimately ended the war unsuccessfully from their point of view . i would say of all of joseph ellis's book i enjoyed this one the most and lord more from this book than any of the other booksso thank you for writing this book . >> i'm glad to hear that. the author of a book is perhaps the most myopic person in terms of understanding how it will be received but i'm happy with it and i hope other people will agree with you. if you like the book founding fathers which is about the 1790s, i think you'll like this one which is about the 1770s. and i didn't know what i was doing 48 or 35 years ago when i started writing about the late 18th century but i

they do in the best they could for their time is taking over in the future brick. >> and joseph ellis is 83 that it was not until 1787 he had a constitution ratified, correct? >> that relate to there's 31 only decides you to the constitution and one will be consulted that constitutional government in the 1790s under the federalists. at the end of the war, whamilton rights to washington francis i am going to retire it's a waste of time. things have to get worse before they can get better. and they are surely going to get worse at this confederation will not be able to govern will not be able to oversee the expansion to the western territory coherently, every statewide foreign policy britt is going to lead to anarchy. probably into a division with separate confederations northern, middle, southern. and so one of the reasons for the subtitle is discontent one of the discontent is not part of the conclusion of the war takes an extra seven years really for a nonviolent coup d'État washington, hamilton, gerry to insist on a constitutional convention. >> connecticut bruce i think i butchered

welcome to our show joseph ellis. >> pleasure being with you, david. >> for those who don't know josephellis he is one of the country's leading scholars on the revolutionary war era. he is a person whose written 13 bks

. >> thank you for those of you who don't know joseph ellis is a leading scholar in this area and hero is a person is written in 13 books on this subject is a graduate of the college of them got his phd >> he's winner of a pulitzer prize and winner of a national book award i would say i've read all of joseph ellis' books, and i enjoyed this one the most, and i actually found i learned more from this book than any of the other books. so thank you very much for writing this book. the most myopic a person in terms of understanding how it will be received i am happy with it i hope that other people would agree with you. if you like the book founding brothers which is about done in the 1790s, i think like this one which is about 1770s. i didn't know what i was doing 41305 years ago i started to write about these centuries and it turns out that i was trying to write history of the american founding. and i turned out that i was doing it backwards. and this should come first chronologically but i don't think i could've written it 25 years ago and i have learned something since and thank god an

featured speakers are historians, lindsay chervinsky, and joseph ellis, as well as cnn's john avalon. >> i'm kevin butterfield, and on behalf of the mount vernon ladies association, the organization that rescued mount vernon in the 1950s and continues to protect and preserve it today. on september 19th, 1796, george washington announced to the world that he would not seek reelection to the presidency. his letter to friends and citizens offered some of the most thorough, thoughtful inspiring advice that has been given to the american people, and a few genuine warnings were included as well. a good number of hopes and fears that remain with us as a nation are discussed in this now 225-year-old document. much of what we debate and discuss in 21st century american politics is addressed here in one form or another. in recognition of the 225th anniversary of this document, we brought together an incredible lineup of talented scholars to reflect on the relevant of the farewell address today. we're joined by john avalon, an author, columnist, commentator, senior political analyst, anchor at c

>> hello i'm david rubenstein have the honor and privilege to interview joseph ellis about his but the cause 1773 through 1783 welcoming here to our show. >> a a pleasure to be with you. >> if you don't know his of the country's leading scholars of the revolutionary war era and has written 13 books on the subject, graduate of college of lehman mary phd at yale monitor that is trying to write out a history of the american founding and it turns out i was doing it backwards. this book should come first chronologically but i don't think i could have written a 25 years ago. i've learned something since then. so like a new child hope you will do well and you send it out into the world. >> what attracted you as a young man to the american revolutionary war. >> i can afford to go to law school. and he set me on the course. and then i worked with him and asked him if i could write my dissertation on thomas jefferson. you have toe live life little bit more. and then i tried to do that for another 25 years. but i guess coming out of the lehman mary so to have some kind of influence. because i hav

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. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i am david rubenstein and the honor and privilege of interviewing joseph ellis about the cause. and it's a discontent welcome to our show joseph. >> pleasure to be with you, david. >> host: and thank you. for those who do not know he's one of the countries leading scholars the revolutionary war era and area he's a person it's's written 13 books on the subjects. he's a graduate of william and mary got his phd from yale he's a winner of a pulitzer prize and national book award his latest book is a an explanation of why we went to war with the british and why they ultimately ended the war from their point of view i've read all and i've enjoyed this the most i've learned this than any other book so thank you very much for writing this book. >> i am glad to hear that. the author of the book is perhaps the most myopic person in terms of understanding how it will be received. i am happy with that and i hope other people will agree with you. if you like the book founding brothers which is about the 1790s, i think you will like this one which is about the 1770s. i did not know

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featured speakers are historians lindsay cheverinsky and joseph ellis and cnn's offavalon. >> my namekevin butterfield and on behalf of the lady's association and the soerks that rescued mt. vernon and continues to protect and preserve it today, i want to welcome you to this conversation about george washington's farewell address. on september 19th,

capital historical society, historian joseph ellis looked at how the founding fathers can provide foray's society. >> the founding fathers were brilliant but they were flawed. they succeeded triumphantly in many respects. they could imagine and successfully bring off winning a war against the dominant military power on the planet at that moment -- great britain. if you think about it how many wars did great britain lose between 1750 and 1950? one. they could imagine a nation sized republic that had never existed before. they could imagine the separation of church and state, the creation of a secular society from the point of view from government authority. that had never happened before either. and finally, a principle that political scientists think is crucial and an invention of the creation of the doctrine of federalism. meaning, that their shared sovereignty. there's no single source of sovereignty in the american republic, which anyone thought you had to have. all those are great triumphs and in the midst of the triumphs there are two enormous tragedies. one is the failure to rea

historian and joseph ellis as well cnn. >> good evening everyone my name is kevin butterfield on behalf of george washington mount vernon and the ladies organization continues to protect and preserve it today, i want to welcome me too this conversation about george washington's farewell address. on september 19, 1796 george washington announced to the world he would not seek reelection to the presidency. his letter to friends and citizens offer some of the much thorough, thoughtful and inspiring advice has ever been given to the american people. in more than a few genuine warnings were included there as well. the hopes and fears remained with us as a nation are now discussing this now 225 year old document. much of what we debate and discuss in 21st century america politics is addressed here in one form or another. in recognition of this document we brought together an incredible lineup of talented scholars to reflect on the relevance of the farewell address today. we were joined by jon avalon author, columnist, senior political analyst, is the author of books including the one we will