mr. hamilton discusses. this is america in 1789. what hamilton accomplished, as we all know because we've seen the musical, is to lay the groundwork for this nation's financial structure. and yet it was revelatory, radical and brand new at the time. at any rate. i can't reiterate often enough how much -- how many gold mines, not just one, wasn't just this one book that many books will be written from this. many many many. there are 23 volumes of the projects work. there will be in years to come, dozens of hundreds of books that will use this material and its organization is absolutely wonderful. so user-friendly, i can't express enough thanks to ken, charlene and the others for that. thanks. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> i do think what's so interesting is how you do make them come alive. you always think of the founders as these bronze and marble deities. one of the great joys of writing women's historyy the women did not see them that way. i'm sort of sorry you have the word "extraordinary" in the title because your quotation says

mr. hamilton discusses? this is america in 1789 what hamilton accomplished is to lay the groundwork for this nation's financial structure. yet it was revelatory, radical and brand new at the time. at any rate -- so i can't reiterate often enough how much, how many gold mines, not just one, isn't just this one book that many books will be written. many, many, many. there are 23 volumes of the project. there will be scores of books that will use the material and the organization is absolutely wonderful. it's so user friendly i can't express enough thanks to ken, charlene and the others for that. thank you. [ applause ] >> i do think what is so interesting is how you make them come alive. we always think of the founders of the bronze and marble day dayties. the wem did not see them that way. i do think -- i'm so sorry you have the word extraordinary in the title because your quoteitation from charles francis adams it takes away from them to see them as demigods. it is harder for people to do what they did. for

mr. hamilton discusses. and this is america in 1789. what hamilton accomplished as we all know, we have seen the musical is to lay the ground work for this nation's financial structure. and yet it was revelatory, radical, and new at the time. at any rate, i can't reiterate often enough how many gold mines, not just one, isn't just this one book, many books will be written from this material. many, many, many. there are 23 volumes of the project's work extent. there will be in years to come scores, dozens, hundreds of books that will use this material and its organization is wonderful. it is so user friendly, i can't express it enough, enough thanks to ken, charlene and others for that. thanks. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> i do think what's so interesting is how you do make them come alive. we always think of the founders as these bronze and marble deities. the women didn't see them that way. i do think that the -- i am sort of sorry you have extraordinary in the title. your quotation from charles frances adams, saying it takes away fro

mr. hamilton discusses? this is america 1789 and what hamilton accomplished as we all know because we have seen the musical is to lay the groundwork for this nation's financial structure and yet, it was revelatory radical and brand-new at the time. at any rate, i can't reiterate often enough how much, how many gold mines, it is not just one, it's not just this one book that many books will be written in many and many, many, 23 volumes of the project work in the years to come, scores, dozens, hundreds books that will use this material and its organization is absolutely wonderful. it's so user-friendly i can't express enough thanks charlene and the others for that. thinking. >> thank you. [applause] >> i do think what is so interesting is how you make them come alive. we think of the founders as these bronze and marble deities and one of the great joys of writing women's history is women did not see them that way. [laughter] i do think and i'm sorry you have the word extraordinary in the title because your quo

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hamilton national bank. and he had to pay those back and you see the payments in the banking records. brian: what was his relationship with mrs. wallace has mother-in-law? a.j.: interesting. you will wonderful question. now will 'mrs. wallace -- ok, so will work with former will and will all the letters exist of thisll or not courtship.a and and areyou brian: how much education did harry truman have? a.j.: again, a great contrast to roosevelt who went to harvard law. truman never finished college. the family was broke when he finished high school. and so he had to go and work on you the and avoid farm. a farm. you and he worked in kansas city for a little bit. you will at some point he took and will on law he had been the head judge of jackson county, missouri. which he was the chief executive of the county most of which was rural. had kansas city in it. but most of it was rural. he had never been chief executive of anything. brian: how did he ever get elected to the united states senate and what role did mr. pendergas play? a.j.: mr. pendergas, fascinating figure. a fun person to write about because he was this larger than l

hamilton national bank. and he had to pay those back and you see the payments in the banking records. >> what was his relationship with mrs. wallace has mother-in-law? >> interesting. wonderful question. mrs. wallace -- ok, so this family comes from independence, missouri. the wallaces were considered arisstrow cats in this -- a istrocratses. -- ar truman was a former. and the wallace lived in independence. all the letter exist of this courtship. and she was very much not in favor of this farm boy because she said "he was never going to go anywhere. and even when they were living in the white house in 1945, mrs. wallace was living in the white house, she still looked down on harry even though he was president of the united states. >> how much education did harry truman have? > again, a great contrast to roosevelt who went to harvard law. truman never finished college. the family was broke when he finished high school. so he had to go and work on the farm. and he worked in kansas city for a little bit. at some point he took law classes at night. i think he had pretty good grades, a's and b's. but he never finished. no coll