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prohibition and a lot of like gangs in new york like al capone that's chicago. but yes prohibition and the idea that although alcohol was banned, people were still drinking and there speakeasies in the cities people are all this stuff is going on which you know today there's all these bars that build themselves in speakeasies because in retrospect seems kind of cool. but you think of the twenties as this moment of wealth and parties and speech eases and jazz and dance crazy and that's all partially true. but there is also a what going on in a deeply divided country in the 1920s, huge cultural rifts and the folks in frank robinson's drugstore knew that this trial is going to land right on one of those fault lines lines. let's talk about those this is what we do with all our trials and use them as a window, a wider world. in 1920, the states census announced that for the first time, more americans lived in cities than rural areas and all of american history. until that time the country if you needed to win an election, you to get right with the farmers. but as far
prohibition and a lot of like gangs in new york like al capone that's chicago. but yes prohibition and the idea that although alcohol was banned, people were still drinking and there speakeasies in the cities people are all this stuff is going on which you know today there's all these bars that build themselves in speakeasies because in retrospect seems kind of cool. but you think of the twenties as this moment of wealth and parties and speech eases and jazz and dance crazy and that's all...
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university of new york. a scholar in century literature, kaplan has become best known as one of the most distinguished biographers of our era. he is published biographies of thomas carlyle, mark twain, henry james, charles dickens, john quincy adams, abraham lincoln gore vidal, and now thomas jefferson in his masterly pen. kaplan offers us a biography of thomas jefferson by giving an english professor's kind attention to jefferson's written words. jefferson only published one book in his lifetime notes on the state of virginia. but, of course, jefferson wrote consul treatises like a summary view of the rights of british north america legal briefs, memoranda the declaration of independence, and above all letters, thousands of them, which kaplan calls among his most powerful and revealing writings throughout his masterly pen, kaplan brings a skilled biographers attention to how jefferson reveals himself through his writing, often without without intending to, as kaplan says of notes on the state of virginia. i
university of new york. a scholar in century literature, kaplan has become best known as one of the most distinguished biographers of our era. he is published biographies of thomas carlyle, mark twain, henry james, charles dickens, john quincy adams, abraham lincoln gore vidal, and now thomas jefferson in his masterly pen. kaplan offers us a biography of thomas jefferson by giving an english professor's kind attention to jefferson's written words. jefferson only published one book in his...
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two years later, during lincoln's presidential election campaign in 1864, farragut was in new york city, where his the hartford was undergoing a refit. and while there, he attended a rally at the cooper union, which i think has heard of. but and according to the york herald, not our new york herald, but the newspaper new york herald. according to the new herald, when he was pointed out the audience, according to the paper the crowd rose to feet and broke out into one loud, hearty prolonged cheer, resplendent in his naval uniform. farragut bowed eyed and smiled. but when the organizers called upon him to make a speech, he replied, words that could not have been more welcome to abraham lincoln if he had written them himself. he said, i was invited here this not as a politician, but a naval officer to see the unanimity and the union feeling that here. but i must leave politics to you, my fellow citizens. i meddle not with politics, in the way speeches. i will endeavor my do my duty on the sea while you do yours. here. given the troubles that lincoln had with some of his ambitious cabinet m
two years later, during lincoln's presidential election campaign in 1864, farragut was in new york city, where his the hartford was undergoing a refit. and while there, he attended a rally at the cooper union, which i think has heard of. but and according to the york herald, not our new york herald, but the newspaper new york herald. according to the new herald, when he was pointed out the audience, according to the paper the crowd rose to feet and broke out into one loud, hearty prolonged...
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major cities like boston, new york and philadelphia being one of the first ones to being developed. the country. right. so again, like i said, we can't talk by the issue of ems without talking about the different wars, but world war one and world war two showed us these wars, unfortunately, showed us creative ways that people could theoretically injured because of all these kind of things that they were doing to try to hurt the opposing side right. so again, obviously increased lethality of weapons the red cross started to become a big factor in this in regards to not hurting people, but helping people. right. started to utilize ambulances. right. world war two, we started to have dedicated people in the military that were their sole job was to provide help. right. we started to see that concept of medics starting to become a real thing. right. it's like pain control and fluid replacement things that we very much do today with our trauma patients. but initially and started to see are examples of that in world war two. right and then also this concept now delayed evacuation of patien
major cities like boston, new york and philadelphia being one of the first ones to being developed. the country. right. so again, like i said, we can't talk by the issue of ems without talking about the different wars, but world war one and world war two showed us these wars, unfortunately, showed us creative ways that people could theoretically injured because of all these kind of things that they were doing to try to hurt the opposing side right. so again, obviously increased lethality of...
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the chicago tribune once called him the blue jeans of new york city. he could get dirty with the laborers, as many of his peers couldn't. at the opening of the new york metropolitan museum of art, he chose to sit with the common citizens rather than the dignitaries. to tale of a garden and the three sams. after tilden lost the election. in 1877, he attempted to enjoy life. he bought huge yachts and turned his prize for st bernard's and dog shows and won. in 1879, he bought gray's an estate in yonkers on the hudson river. its chords as you see the palisade cliffs just beautiful property which he would expand to 200 acres. the mansion 99 rooms and it's here. he had a stroke and died. many later in, 1899. samuel onto meyer bought the vast estate on the hudson. his vision was to turn it into phoenician gardens, the grandest in the world. temples pillars, fountains, some prices were built rivaling all others. over time, much of the was sold off. never less. one can envision the beauty visiting unfamiliar gardens. i visited it a few years ago and these photo
the chicago tribune once called him the blue jeans of new york city. he could get dirty with the laborers, as many of his peers couldn't. at the opening of the new york metropolitan museum of art, he chose to sit with the common citizens rather than the dignitaries. to tale of a garden and the three sams. after tilden lost the election. in 1877, he attempted to enjoy life. he bought huge yachts and turned his prize for st bernard's and dog shows and won. in 1879, he bought gray's an estate in...
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the british had abandoned eastern new jersey and are holding up now in three key cities in northern new jersey, close to new york and the royal fleet support them. they have to out to forage for supplies, their horses and for their men. and when they do, the continental marines and others come out of morristown and they have skirmishes over the course of the winter. during that time, henry knox now that he has more cannon than he has soldiers to be able to man them more desert, more casualties, more terminating enlistments. so looks around the aa and he goes, wait a minute, now those marines know how to operate ships cannons. the difference is had a ship's cannon is on a different carriage and has a bit of a shorter barrel, but very similar to a ground based cannon that you need two large wheels for maneuverability with and have a little bit longer cannon barrel so that you can get accurate fire. so knox very wisely turns a general washington and says general, can i please have the continenl battalion assigned to me to be the continental army's corps of artillery? washington approves th
the british had abandoned eastern new jersey and are holding up now in three key cities in northern new jersey, close to new york and the royal fleet support them. they have to out to forage for supplies, their horses and for their men. and when they do, the continental marines and others come out of morristown and they have skirmishes over the course of the winter. during that time, henry knox now that he has more cannon than he has soldiers to be able to man them more desert, more casualties,...
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and so new york city's constantly evolving. they weren't trying to build in the gilded age architecture of antiquity. it was for them. this was contemporary and so every fence always being changed and added to. and so i kind of it's a contentious of argument to get involved with how you should do how you should do in addition to a museum, a lot of don't like what was done to the morgan i, i actually don't mind because i think it actually the morgan was a collection of various buildings that weren't connected of various styles. and i think what was done by renzo piano actually kind of helps bring them all together into a, into a cohesive home. so we'll see what happens with what they end up doing at the frick. it's been a while and i think it's slated to be open next year. so you come back here. you are so engaging. why, thank you. i would love to know how you got interested in this and how. see, because of your enthusiasm and knowledge, what you're with us can help better convince people to appreciate this because yours here in
and so new york city's constantly evolving. they weren't trying to build in the gilded age architecture of antiquity. it was for them. this was contemporary and so every fence always being changed and added to. and so i kind of it's a contentious of argument to get involved with how you should do how you should do in addition to a museum, a lot of don't like what was done to the morgan i, i actually don't mind because i think it actually the morgan was a collection of various buildings that...
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but, you know, the presidential library and of course, we live in new york city. they have lots of the columbia library, the new york city library, and doing a lot of phone work and a little bit of travel. we we managed we managed to do it. it was fun to do it. certainly interesting to read letters and to try and find things particularly personal things, because i think it is interesting to look at the personal side of people as well. some people are the same or not or have very there seemed pretty much the same as presidents. i mean, for example, lyndon johnson was pretty much a bossy man, as you know, as you people will remember, lyndon johnson, he was pretty much like that with his wife, too, after he got her to marry him, you know, but the beginning, he was very, you know, very, very kind. but once he got his way, you know, she had to do certain things for him, made it very clear who was the boss. so he was sort of the same, but then some people were quite different. it was interesting. it's always interesting, anyway, to read people's personal letters. who do
but, you know, the presidential library and of course, we live in new york city. they have lots of the columbia library, the new york city library, and doing a lot of phone work and a little bit of travel. we we managed we managed to do it. it was fun to do it. certainly interesting to read letters and to try and find things particularly personal things, because i think it is interesting to look at the personal side of people as well. some people are the same or not or have very there seemed...
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and in the new york city post office, a big post office, they had a lady's window, but in most places they did not. so they would be waiting in line and they wouldinly make it up to desk and they'd give their name. and they might often be presented with a letter like this one telling this woman that her husband been killed at gettysburg and the woman would break down or she would be given a whole stack, undelivered letters that she had written to her husband that that the minute that the postmaster started to hand them over, she knew that he was dead. so the postmaster in cleveland, a man named joseph william briggs decided that he just wouldn't he was not going to let the post office become a public place of grief for these women. and he started this system of home delivery with his pos office. and as all good bosses do. montgomery blair, postmaster general heard about this and he agreed with that. by the end of the war, there were 49 cities that were getting home delivery. so the civil war is why you get mail delivered at home. it's also why your street has a name and there's probab
and in the new york city post office, a big post office, they had a lady's window, but in most places they did not. so they would be waiting in line and they wouldinly make it up to desk and they'd give their name. and they might often be presented with a letter like this one telling this woman that her husband been killed at gettysburg and the woman would break down or she would be given a whole stack, undelivered letters that she had written to her husband that that the minute that the...
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york city to visit? yeah. so he. he came to 125th street and seventh avenue and i don't think he even intended to get, but he was sort of surrounded by supporters and, gave an impromptu speech, which very much a thing lumumba liked do and his advisors. there was a quote from. one of advisors looking around in harlem and saying, oh, they're all africans here is great. and so i think it was a you know, most of their business was down the u.n. but there was this brief trip to where he was. i think he was even carried on the shoulders of his supporters. this actually comes from thomas book, where we learn what happened when they he came to harlem just. before we go to the next question, speaking of the speeches, you do a good job of going through some of them here mean i think of this incident at the where the king of belgium is there or and he gives a speech and then gets up and gives the speech. i don't know if you want to read little bit of this speech. it's on page 120 after after mean. and it just shows
york city to visit? yeah. so he. he came to 125th street and seventh avenue and i don't think he even intended to get, but he was sort of surrounded by supporters and, gave an impromptu speech, which very much a thing lumumba liked do and his advisors. there was a quote from. one of advisors looking around in harlem and saying, oh, they're all africans here is great. and so i think it was a you know, most of their business was down the u.n. but there was this brief trip to where he was. i think...
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york city to visit? yeah. so he. he came to 125th street and seventh avenue and i don't think he even intended to get, but he was sort of surrounded by supporters and, gave an impromptu speech, which very much a thing lumumba liked do and his advisors. there was a quote from. one of advisors looking around in harlem and saying, oh, they're all africans here is great. and so i think it was a you know, most of their business was down the u.n. but there was this brief trip to where he was. i think he was even carried on the shoulders of his supporters. this actually comes from thomas book, where we learn what happened when they he came to harlem just. before we go to the next question, speaking of the speeches, you do a good job of going through some of them here mean i think of this incident at the where the king of belgium is there or and he gives a speech and then gets up and gives the speech. i don't know if you want to read little bit of this speech. it's on page 120 after after mean. and it just shows
york city to visit? yeah. so he. he came to 125th street and seventh avenue and i don't think he even intended to get, but he was sort of surrounded by supporters and, gave an impromptu speech, which very much a thing lumumba liked do and his advisors. there was a quote from. one of advisors looking around in harlem and saying, oh, they're all africans here is great. and so i think it was a you know, most of their business was down the u.n. but there was this brief trip to where he was. i think...
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new york city. the irony is that for the part, it was good intentions that led us to where we are today. a nation governed by bureaucratic empires empires. i wonder whether when they built this building, they realized that it was going to come out looking like a fortress for a modest beginnings. in 1953, the department health, education and welfare has grown into a veritable empire of only a small part of its total is housed in this headquarters building a mere 2000. the bureaucrats. its budget is a third largest budget in the whole world, exceeded only by entire budget of the united states and of the soviet union. it employs directly. 150,000 full time people and. the empire in rules employs another. more than one out of every hundred people in the united states works in the empire. as we have seen in this series, the department, health, education and is spending increasing amounts of our money each year on health. one effect is simply to raise the fees and prices for medical and hospital services
new york city. the irony is that for the part, it was good intentions that led us to where we are today. a nation governed by bureaucratic empires empires. i wonder whether when they built this building, they realized that it was going to come out looking like a fortress for a modest beginnings. in 1953, the department health, education and welfare has grown into a veritable empire of only a small part of its total is housed in this headquarters building a mere 2000. the bureaucrats. its budget...
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new york city. the irony is that for the part, it was good intentions that led us to where we are today. a nation governed by bureaucratic empires empires. i wonder whether when they built this building, they realized that it was going to come out looking like a fortress for a modest beginnings. in 1953, the department health, education and welfare has grown into a veritable empire of only a small part of its total is housed in this headquarters building a mere 2000. the bureaucrats. its budget is a third largest budget in the whole world, exceeded only by entire budget of the united states and of the soviet union. it employs directly. 150,000 full time people and. the empire in rules employs another. more than one out of every hundred people in the united states works in the empire. as we have seen in this series, the department, health, education and is spending increasing amounts of our money each year on health. one effect is simply to raise the fees and prices for medical and hospital services
new york city. the irony is that for the part, it was good intentions that led us to where we are today. a nation governed by bureaucratic empires empires. i wonder whether when they built this building, they realized that it was going to come out looking like a fortress for a modest beginnings. in 1953, the department health, education and welfare has grown into a veritable empire of only a small part of its total is housed in this headquarters building a mere 2000. the bureaucrats. its budget...
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york city. and so there's no fundamental transfer station from atlanta. and this book explore that. i'm still curious. i was curious like how that happened, but i'm a surprised everyone here. i'm a i'm a real excerpt and this to be while this will be real crazy, i'll tell you about what atlanta was like and its origins like we all have an origin story all right each of us individually we all have origin stories. cities have origin stories. and the origin story for atlanta really demonstrates the improbable, capable future that we eventually and i'm going to talk about. a lot of people don't know this. i know this. and so and i'm actually embarrassed to say i should i should keep this to myself i should ask just keep this with me. and god. i didn't i got to have a ps2 in history. history. i'm a i do u.s. re since 1865. so that's my my savings saving grace that i didn't know this, but we are one of the most celebrated presidents of the united states was abraham lincoln and lincoln is celebrated by
york city. and so there's no fundamental transfer station from atlanta. and this book explore that. i'm still curious. i was curious like how that happened, but i'm a surprised everyone here. i'm a i'm a real excerpt and this to be while this will be real crazy, i'll tell you about what atlanta was like and its origins like we all have an origin story all right each of us individually we all have origin stories. cities have origin stories. and the origin story for atlanta really demonstrates...
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and in the in new york city, everyone you might know does. but if you go out into the real and start talking to people about complex political anonymous like, you know, this jury verdict from. trump they are they. it's not like i'm going to go into my if i'm a barista at starbucks tomorrow like, hey, are you doing i'm great. did you hear about trump verdict? you're like, that's not outside of our bubble. okay? and our little bubble is i mean, it's so insular that. i have had a really hard time explaining to people. actually, the amber heard johnny depp relationship fight trial thing that happened in 2022. more people interested in that than the repeal of roe versus wade and like more people were like, i need to know what happened between johnny and amber. then wait a minute. what is this thing about abortion? right. and like you think about what that means. it means that that the public does the public is not reacting a lot of stuff. some of it's partizan, polarization. like republicans are never going to say joe biden's doing a good job. but
and in the in new york city, everyone you might know does. but if you go out into the real and start talking to people about complex political anonymous like, you know, this jury verdict from. trump they are they. it's not like i'm going to go into my if i'm a barista at starbucks tomorrow like, hey, are you doing i'm great. did you hear about trump verdict? you're like, that's not outside of our bubble. okay? and our little bubble is i mean, it's so insular that. i have had a really hard time...