of the university w york and founded by shelby white and the leon levy foundation in 2007. i want to thank shelby for her steadfast support for the biography center over all these years. it is her program that made this possible. please note the next event is coming up in two days on this thursday october 15th where victor and i will interview larry about his timely and important new biography of joseph mccarthy. tonight we are here to celebrate the publication of abe, abraham lincoln in his time a new biography by david reynolds. his book launch and the book has received early reviews and the publishers weekly and elsewhere and we encourage everyone to look it up on amazon or your own local bookstore. david reynolds is a distinguished professor at the graduate center and the author of walt whitman's america a cultural biography, winner of the bancroft prize. his other books include beneath the american renaissance, john brown abolitionist and mighty year than the sword, uncle tom's cabin and the battle for america. he is a regular book reviewer for "the new york times" boo

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the leon levy center for biography hosted this event and provided the video. she explains how she discovered klaus fuchs while researching her previous book. a screen spend starts by explaining how she found this by while researching her previous book on nobel physicist. >> so let's go at it. i was asking you why close a few cars. >> i actually got interested in him when i was doing this because i had a lot of family papers, i had huge numbers of letters and diaries. in those, during the late thirties when he was there, he was always showing up in some little piece of paper that i had, he was showing up is very nice person. he took their children out to the movies. he played cards with them. he was in their little music on stumble. people liked him, he was very quiet, very shy but he was a nice person and all of a sudden he was a spy and they were dumbfounded and i came into this information as i did, i did know much about him when i was first working on it. so, at that point as i was writing about him i thought i should find out more about klaus fuchs, he's a

the leon levy center for biography hosted this event and provided the video. she explains how she discovered klaus fuchs while researching her previous book. a screen