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franklin was the committee's most famous writer and personality he'd recently from london, where he'd been representing pennsylvania small art craft, a tactful he wasn't interested in a writing. john adams was a passionate participant in the floor and the challenge writer. he, however, felt overburdened with important committee work. the other two appointments livingston from new york and sherman from canada. kent had no special interest in or talent writers. all five, though, are of the same mind so as congress they wanted another document, this one a conclusive statement for almost every delegate already signed on to a declaration. the colonies were now independence states was to be a document justifying to the world their reasons for this extraordinary assertion was to be a collective statement intended to be signed by every delegate they all had read. jefferson's summary view of british america. his writing talent was recognized. it helped that he was from virginia, one of the two tales that, wag the colonies dog. every member of congress understood he would have a chance some lat
franklin was the committee's most famous writer and personality he'd recently from london, where he'd been representing pennsylvania small art craft, a tactful he wasn't interested in a writing. john adams was a passionate participant in the floor and the challenge writer. he, however, felt overburdened with important committee work. the other two appointments livingston from new york and sherman from canada. kent had no special interest in or talent writers. all five, though, are of the same...
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there's not an avenue franklin in london. what, if any, did ben franklin play in creating the us department of state? what by? the time he comes back? thomas jefferson replaced him in paris and jefferson very clear on the fact that he has succeeded rather than replaced ben franklin. because, as jefferson puts it, no one could possibly replace him. and it's really jefferson who begins to craft a foreign policy for a new nation. so in way that is the launching part, i would say, for for the department of state. your book, the great improvization, is being turned into a miniseries. tell us about it. it's an eight part apple series. it will air, i believe, beginning around april in the role of ben franklin. is douglas looking more like franklin than ben franklin? and it was filmed in precise sally, those hallways down, which ben franklin himself walked complaining the cold marble floors for all of those years that he was weekly paying visits to versailles to see louis the 16th to finesse the aid for the war. so it was really film
there's not an avenue franklin in london. what, if any, did ben franklin play in creating the us department of state? what by? the time he comes back? thomas jefferson replaced him in paris and jefferson very clear on the fact that he has succeeded rather than replaced ben franklin. because, as jefferson puts it, no one could possibly replace him. and it's really jefferson who begins to craft a foreign policy for a new nation. so in way that is the launching part, i would say, for for the...
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there was a major meeting german and british historians, german instructors who put on outside of london and the great hitler biographer kershaw. as a young student last june, he was just the beginning of his profession, went to hear this because he was in all of these senior people and he later wrote, you know, it didn't occur to me at the time. only later that for two days they talked about the third reich and the structure of, the nazi germany, and nobody talked about the holocaust. it was just at the late seventies that this was beginning to change. that's when we had decision to create the holocaust museum. that's when the docudrama of the holocaust by the nbc came. that's when the holtzman legislation to create an office of special investigations to finally begin to judicially pursue nazis in nazi collaborators in the states came so the late seventies was the turning point really place in 1969 i went to my professor in wisconsin and i was had read ralph hilbert book structure. the european -- and that was for me that was the conversion experience. i had an academic conversion. this
there was a major meeting german and british historians, german instructors who put on outside of london and the great hitler biographer kershaw. as a young student last june, he was just the beginning of his profession, went to hear this because he was in all of these senior people and he later wrote, you know, it didn't occur to me at the time. only later that for two days they talked about the third reich and the structure of, the nazi germany, and nobody talked about the holocaust. it was...
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think about 40% of all the tea that came to north america duty british tea originally purchased in london from an auction from these india company and brought here by private merchants. 40% of that was was coming to boston and that that says that patriots had to have been quite anxious about getting people to subscribe to these political ideas they had about consuming things because obviously lots of people didn't subscribe to these ideas and they demonstrated that every day when they bought consumer goods that they weren't supposed to buy. and the arrival of this india t presented the possibility of being a final blow in pushing bostonians into more broadly accepting this arrangement. so particularly around this the tea tax which we probably all know this tax that parliament was putting on tea, it had been in place for years. there was no no real concern about establishing a precedent of the tax being in place. it had been in place for half a decade already, and bostonians had been paying it. but the the other problem the patriots had was this issue of consent. so if you don't consent or
think about 40% of all the tea that came to north america duty british tea originally purchased in london from an auction from these india company and brought here by private merchants. 40% of that was was coming to boston and that that says that patriots had to have been quite anxious about getting people to subscribe to these political ideas they had about consuming things because obviously lots of people didn't subscribe to these ideas and they demonstrated that every day when they bought...
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as you can see, he's a he's again producing this producing these pictures for an exhibition then in london. so he wanted look wants to look incredibly grand. and as you can see, he succeeded. i mean, this was like the temple of luxor or something. you would think looking at it so but an indian painter of the same period also made these paintings but this is civil. and as you can see a sees it in a completely different you know he's focused all the little on the all the little people who are working there. but again is a picture of a sitaram who did a this picture of the opium go down. i love this picture because i think i'll sit around very consciously wanted to put put his picture into dialog with peter he sees the round tower which i imagine he must have seen in some british form in calcutta that i'm so obviously i would go down to calcutta from from patna and then from patna it would it would be, it would then be auctioned in calcutta actually that that's the building quite appropriately. the hsbc bank, that's the location. hsbc, in fact, was founded on. in fact, by opium traders. you k
as you can see, he's a he's again producing this producing these pictures for an exhibition then in london. so he wanted look wants to look incredibly grand. and as you can see, he succeeded. i mean, this was like the temple of luxor or something. you would think looking at it so but an indian painter of the same period also made these paintings but this is civil. and as you can see a sees it in a completely different you know he's focused all the little on the all the little people who are...