Good morning, everyone, im joanne meyers. We are delighted to welcome dr. Ali khan. Dr. Khan will be discussing his book the next pandemic. As former director of the office of Public Health preparedness and response at the centers for Disease Control and prevention dr. Khan has been on the front lines in the fight to contain the worlds deadliest diseases. Hes not the first one to have done so. Throughout history humans have been fighting diseases, deadly wars against contagions and there has never been a time where humans were not affects with microbes and fought against him. During khans time our speaker has had with contagions. He worked among red cross for the first ebola crisis. After 911 called to washington to prevent the spread of anthrax in the Senate Office building. A disease hunter, if you will, mission was to read the governments efforts to prepare public for disease outbreaks and health emergencies. He has seen it all. He also writes that not all epidemics and pandemics ar
You can go around the back. I want to welcome David Quammen who has come this evening to talk about his new book spillover animal infections and the next human pandemic. Its the first time he has been to politics and prose. He has written many many books including the song of the dodo which won the donderos metal for history writing. David holds honorary degrees from Colorado College and Montana State university where he served as professor of western american studies. He has also won the National Magazine award three times for articles in a wide variety of magazines including a squire, the atlantic and rolling stone. The third of these awards was for a National Geographic story called what went wrong. National geographic now, he has the title contributing writer, that is with capital letters which requires him did you say three articles a year . Three articles a year for National Geographic, he describes this as field biology, evolutionary biology, theoretical ecology and conservation
When swanson, the secretary, found the dummy account she was floored. This is rita, after all. She immediately brought it to the attention of the mayor, who wasted no time in calling the fbi. Six months later they were ready and one morning in april 2012 rita called into the Mayors Office where the fbi was waiting for her. Rita confessed. After all she was caught redhanded. There was nothing much she could do. And fully cooperated with the fbi. This is not the mayor was so upset by now when asked what his thoughts were on the episode was he said, turned out Rita Cromwell didnt give a shit about this town. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Mike jacobs, its a pleasure to get a chance to talk to you here at the carter center. I am also welcome the audience thats come out tonight to listen to our conversation. Mike jacobs is the author of panic at the pump the Energy Crisis and the transformation of american politicness the 1970s. Mike is a teaches history and Pu
She is interviewed by ted olson, former solicitor general in the george w. Bush administration. Our after Words Program begins at 10 00 p. M. This evening. Ceo and president of the new york times, Mark Thompson sits down with Arianna Huffington to discuss his new book about political language. Its called enough said and we wrap up booktv in primetime at 11 00 p. M. Pulitzer prizewinning historian allen taylor examines the american revolution. Now that all happens tonight on booktv on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] okay let me check the mic first. Did you hear in the back row . Okay comment rates. I am Barbara Meade one of the founders of politics and prose and i just wanted very much to come in and introduce Stephen Budiansky because i enjoyed this book so much. I just thought it was such an impressive accomplishment and to write this book steven had to delve deep into mathematics, linguistics, engineering as well as the technical history of code making and code breaking. From those
Booktv, post it to our face book page, or send it to booktv cspan. Org. You are watching the tv on cspan2, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. Here is our prime time lineup for tonight. Starting at 6 30 eastern Charles Lewis founder of the center for Public Integrity examines the way people in positions of power manipulate the truth to achieve their goals. At 7 45 congressman paul ryan talks about conservatism and the future of the republican party, talks with former governor and republican president ial candidate mitt romney. Afterwards at 9 00 a. M. Eastern dr. Ben carson talks about political and social issues of the day with chuck todd of nbc news. 4 profiles three women, students, a single mother and grandmother who are deployed to iraq and afghanistan at 10 00 p. M. Eastern. Then wrap up tonights primetime programming with lawrence goldstones recount of the right brothers efforts to be the predominance name in manned flight. It all happens tonight on cspan2s b