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Civil War Stories: The Little-Known Battle that Saved Washington, D.C. with Marc Leepson
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Marc Leepson is the author of nine books, including Saving Monticello; a history of Thomas Jefferson's “Essay in Architecture;” Flag: An American Biography, Lafayette: Idealist General, a concise biography of the Marquis de Lafayette; and What So Proudly We Hailed, a biography of Francis Scott Key. He taught U.S. History at Lord Fairfax Community College in Warrenton, Virginia, from 2007-2015. A former staff writer at Congressional Quarterly in Washington, D.C., his feature articles, essays, and book reviews have appeared in many magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Smithsonian, Publishers Weekly, Preservation, and Civil War Times. He has given scores of talks on his books and been interviewed many times on radio and television, including on The Today Show, CBS This Morning, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, Discovery Channel, The History Channel, History Detectives, All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation, To The Point, Morning Edition, The Diane Rehm Show, The BBC NewsHour, Irish Radio, and CBC (Canada), and has written entries for the Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Americana, and the Dictionary of Virginia Biography.
This conversation is suitable for all ages.
90 minutes, including a 30 minute Q&A.
Mr Leepson shared his insight into events which probably saved Washington DC from being sacked during the Civil War .. Well done!
I suggest that Mr. Leepson slow down his presentation and give the audience an opportunity to read each slide before moving on. His presentation lasted barely an hour. He could have expanded some of the portions of the presentation, particularly that of the battles which I had expected to be covered in more detail. I concluded that he was more interested in selling his book than in providing information. I have seen more than 50 Context presentations and this is the first one where the presenter did not present the topic well but rather gave you teasers so that you would buy the book. Not doing that!