Transcripts For CSPAN2 Booknotes 20140125

Fill with fluid. You would have a young person who would start to fill sick and within hours or a day or so they would be gasping for breath, their skin would be turning dark was their blood wasnt getting enough oxygen. One person described it asthma hogny spots on the cheek mahogany spots on the cheekbones. We dont see that today. Today what you see is you feel very ill, and some people are dying, but nobodys getting the sort of instant death that they were getting then. Cspan are you vised about what you got in this book based on what you started with . Guest yeah. That was part of the reason i really enjoyed working on this book, because the more i worked on it, it was like story just kept Getting Better and better and growing and growing. Scientists and historians were extraordinarily generous with me too. I mean, people were amazing. Ed kill gore, whos one of the people that i reference in this book a lot whos a flu expert, he was there in 1976. I was calling and emailing him cop instantly trying to get records. He was taking them down from his attic and finally he said im just going to keep all my files in my living room until you finish your book, gene that. People were willing to go through old records, old files, try to reconstruct what had happened, how theyd felt, why. They were so generous, i was stunned. Johan holten was amazing looking for Old Newspaper articles, old photographs, old documents. Held try to do anything he could to help me reconstruct his story and go beyond just his memory of what had happened. Cspan were out of time. Theres a lot more in this. Here it is. Its a book called flu by gina colatta, the story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it. Thank you very much. Guest thank you. The redesigned book notes web site now features over 800 notable nonfiction authors interviewed about their books. There you can view all the programs, see the transcripts and use the searchable database and find lepgs to the authors blogs, facebook pages and twitter feeds. Book notes. Org with brand new look and feel. A Helpful Research tool and a great way to watch and enjoy the authors and their books. Well, people dont understand how it works with bookings. A lot of people write books, and then they spend the next two years trying to get somebody to publish their books. Ive never really experienced that. So when people come to me and how do you get a book published, i say, look, im the wrong person to ask. [laughter] but, you know, finally felt that really i had something to say. I dont write books just for the purpose of writing books. The first three, four books, actually, i did with a cowriter