jeffrey rosen moderates the conversation with white house historical association historian lindsay chervinsky and pulitzer prize-winning author edward larson. this and other constitution center programs are available on their website and as podcast. jeffrey: it is now my great pleasure to put on my constitutional reading glasses -- you can tell i am not actually outside because i have ut

. >> next, lindsay chervinsky, storing at the white house historical association on george washington's presidency. this is a virtual author is it her book "the cabinet: george washington and the creation of an american institution." >> good afternoon. welcome to white house history life. my name is stewart mclaurin and i'm the president of the white house historical association. today we're going to have an exciting conversation with the head of our rubenstein senator whitehouse history and one of our historians on a brand-new book, "the cabinet: george washington and the creation of an american institution." ordinarily we would be doing this event at the carriage house which is a base of operations on lafayette park but as were all working

she will be talking with lindsay chervinsky, the creation of american institution, colleen, it is all you. >> thank you, stewart. i'm here to celebrate my colleague's lindsay book launch of the cabinet. i have it right here in front of me. it's a terrific book. i want to remind everybody who is listening tonight and tuning in on facebook live that if you have questions for lindsay we will be taking questions from the audience at the end of the program, just type your questions into the comment section, the facebook feed and we will get to many -- as many questions as possible at the conclusion of our program. without further delay, though, i want to start talking to lindsay about this terrific book, the cabinet. so lindsay, tell us, there's been many, many books written about george washington, books about his time as revolutionary war general, time -- books written about his time as president of the united states and there's been a lot of scholarship on his precedent setting activities, however, there's never been a book link treatment of washington's creation of the cabinet, why do

. >> next, lindsay chervinsky, storing at the white house historical association on george washington's presidency. this is a virtual author is it her book "the cabinet: george washington and the creation of an american institution." >> good afternoon. welcome to white house history life. my name is stewart mclaurin and i'm the president of the white house historical association. today we're going to have an exciting conversation with the head of our rubenstein senator whitehouse history and one of our historians on a brand-new book, "the cabinet: george washington and the creation of an american institution." ordinarily we would be doing this event at the carriage house which is a base of operations on lafayette park but as were all working from home and join you in your home, we are trying out this new mode of communications. but it's perfectly fitting with our historic mission. as all of you know, we were founded in 1961 i first lady jacqueline kennedy who had the vision at such a young age in such a short bit of time as first lady to create an organization like the white house histo

lindsay chervinsky is a white house historian at the white house historical association. she is the author of the new book "the cabinet: george washington and the creation of an american institution." she is widely published. i had the great pleasure of interviewing her recently on a podcast, and i cannot wait to share her work and her insights with you. lindsay, welcome to america's town hall. lindsay: thank you so much for having me. jeffrey: and edward larson, the hugh and hazel darling chair of law in university history professor at pepperdine university. he is a recipient of the pulitzer prize in history. he is the co-author of 14 books, several of them on george washington and the founders, and his newest book is "franklin and washington: the founding partnership." it is wonderful to welcome you back to the national constitution center. edward: thank you so much for having me back, even if only virtually. jeffrey: it is just great. i am so eager to learn from both of you and with both of you, in the spirit of louis brandeis. come, let us reason together. let the lea

next to mark is lindsay chervinsky. lindsay got her ph.d. in history from the university of california at davis. she is currently the white house historian, working for the white house historical association. and she also held a post dock for two years and her son was at southern methodist university at the center for presidential history her book that she is working on and is under contract with harvard university precedent titled the president kept, and george washington and the creation of an american institution. lindsay has written several pieces for a popular audience, thinking through the cabinet choices that our current president has made and what we might learn from history in thinking that through. and then, last but not least at the end is david houpt. david got his ph.d. from the city university of new york graduate center, and he is currently an assistant professor at the university of north carolina at wilmington. and his book, also under contract, is to organize the sovereign people, democracy and political mobilization and re

next to mark is lindsay chervinsky. she is currently the white house historian, working for the white house historical association. she also held a post-doctorate for two years. hers was at southern methodist university at the center for presidential history. her book she is working on and is under contract with harvard university press, is entitled "the president's cabinet," george washington and the creation of an american institution." lindsay has written several pieces for a popular audience, thinking through the cabinet choices are current president has made and what we might learn from history and thinking that through. last but not least, at the end, david houpt. he got his phd from the city university of new york graduate center. he is a assistant professor at the university of north carolina wilmington. his book is "to organize the sovereign people, democracy and mobilization in revolutionary pennsylvania." thank you to all four of you. thank you first to the conference organizers for putting together this sche