gillard? and she said, please just call me julia. julia. in short order we were talking about the pool in australia and when we could come to visit. but she has been very warm and generous with her time with me personally and every member of my team talking to interns, research assistants, senior executive fellows around the world. so it is a pleasure and honor to have her in the brookings family. and with and with that i know that i also wanted to say not only with us at brookings it is pleasure, but also a a great pleasure for our global education community. not too long ago she joined as the chair of the global partnership and we did not -- i did not get notes beforehand, but i am sure she would echo all of these things. the entire the entire global community is happy to have you in the role of the sector. with that over tu. >> you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. [applauding] >> a big a big thank you to rebecca and her colleagues here. it is it is nice to have this opportunity to launch my story at brookings. i, to want to acknowl

[laughter] a conversation by julia gillard on "my story." if you haven't seen her book it's wonderful, i highly recommend are it and you will also get those recommendations from my colleagues. yes, indeed. and i know copies are available afterwards. and julia, you'll be sticking around for a little bit won't you? oh good. for anybody who wants to talk get a book signed, etc. so i'm not going to dive into the subject of the book, i'm going to leave that to the panelists. but i do want to make a personal introduction to julia gillard who i first met a year ago. can you believe it was only a year ago? she joined us as a distinguished fellow here at brookings working primarily on global education issues, and we were very honored to have her, and i thought well, you know, she probably will be very high level, very conceptual, you know, former heads of state are often sort of very big, big picture. and, indeed, that's i true. but how wrong i was in terms of how strong her intellect is. so three points. you know, any economist who would like to go

murdoch says, i come from the city that gave julia gillard to the world. we are honored and happy to have jewelas as a colleague here. second she will be signing books and i just want to read a passage that goes bang to penny in spices. a wonderful passage right at the beginning of the book where julia says the taste of politics is always bittersweet because the best and the worst of things are often inex-trek blue woven together. i i have endeferred to convey the complexity of the flavor but sometimes the sweet the ability to do thing is so passionately believed would make our nation more stronger and fairer was always the most intense. thank you so much. [applause] >> lincoln scholar harold holzer reports that lincoln was defendant at using the press to push his political agenda but quick to censor papers he deemed disloyal. >> so, enough about the business of the national archives. let's talk about the business of tonight. it's my pleasure to introduce the two speakers you'll hear from this evening. first, harold holzer, who is a lead are authority on l