if he wanted wasn't too afraid out there and so on and so he started answering those questions at lyceum lectures and it kind of grew from there but of course it changed, it was not just a narrative of my experience but the book is sometimes life in the woods and so thoreau had the publisher get rid of that subtitle eventually. it really wasn't just a narrative of what it's like to live out in the woods as probably the more complicated book than that. it was walden the experience which was a few years but walden the book was a much longer project, it wasn't published until 1854. it went through seven different drafts so in the interim, thoreau took up new methodologies of observation around 1851, 52. he took up a new way of observing the world and a lot of that is reflected in the final draft of walden so it takes a little, it takes some exercise and intellectual exercise to pick apart those threads and figure out what it is that he's up to while he's actually out. >> walden was more successful than a week on the concorde and merrimack, and in fact the deal thoreau made with his publishe

had we young lincoln among us, he might deliver a lyceum address exploring where the true greatness of america lies. absent that, we have plenty of old fogies who can help. it depends on the capacity to read which is to say it depends on education, both civic and liberal. at the top of my reading list, are abraham lincoln and leon kass or that combination i think of as abraham lincoln kass. [applause] >> thank you diana for that wonderful speech and now james ceaser. james: thank you. patriotism has it is experienced first by most americans is a sentiment of deep attachment for the nation. it's something akin to love. it's something felt coming from the heart and it surges at a certain moment in response faced with symbol like the jet planes that screamed past the opening of the super bowl. or the sight of the flag in the breeze or through music that which is the star spangled banner or god bless america or lee green's "proud to be an american." patriotism is connected with feelings for those in the military and their sacrifices by the encounter with the monuments of the soldier of iwo