Host some of the most striking parts are if your book, your talk about behaviors, in hindsight it is easy to see the signs of addiction. In realtime it is not. Tell me about that. What i learned is not only is that true but i came to the idea of addiction with my own implicit biases. I did not think someone struggling with the drug addiction would look like peter, earning the salary he was earning, have two advanced degrees, have a successful partner and at prestigious Silicon Valley law firm. Someone struggling with an addiction was also struggling with conditions like a homeless or Mental Illness that was untreated. They were someone i would see on the side of the road living under a bridge panhandling on the subway and i was very wrong although addiction hits hard in those communities there are plenty of people at the top of the socioeconomic ladder struggling as well. What i didnt know is i hadnt educated myself on the symptoms of drug addiction. I hadnt thought it would affect me
Discussion and theres a lot to do so please stick around. I believe time for questions at the end so please think of some and if anything occurs to you we will give at least we 10 minutes. This will run very quickly because i had a chance to meet a. J. Baime, author of the arsenal of democracy fdr, detroit, and an epic quest to arm an america at war. I had a chance to read it and i recommend it to you. It is a topic that covers politics, business, even some art design, incredible personalities. I learned a lot from reading it. I am a world war ii buff. Do we have any other world war ii buff . I am a history buff for sure. A. J. Baime writing about a subject from the 30s and 40s. How did you do it and what does the young guy like you know about world war ii . It is wonderful to be here. My wife rochelle is here and my son clayton running the arsenal writing the arsenal of democracy fdr, detroit, and an epic quest to arm an america at war. I was born in 1971. My last book took place in t
The wilson quarterly. And on the oped opinion and book review pages of the boston globe. He the New York Times, usa today and the washington post. He lives in manassas virginia. Please give a warm savannah welcome to robert wilson. [applause] thank you. I appreciate that introduction. Im hoping your app works a lot better than the app that was done for the iowa caucuses. [laughing] i trust it will. Youre probably actually tested it. And thanks to all of you for coming this morning on this cold morning. Its very pleasant to see soo many of you here. Its very pleasant to see cspan here and what you think cspan for all that does to support book culture in america. I would be tempted to say normally what remains of book culture in america, but on a day like today its very easy to be optimistic about the state of books. Books. I love being in savannah. My wife martha and i come here as often as we can and we live outside washington dc. And we have a in the panhandle of florida. We used to d
My name is travis cohen, im a bookseller and in charge of the abamended to quick housekeeping and we can jump right in. Im gonna take a quick second to remind everyone to please silence your cell phone. We are also recording video and audio in todays talk. Also when it comes time for the q a portion we have a standing microphone right here, at the end of the aisle we ask that you speak clearly into it and keep your question to a question. Following everything we have all the books on sale behind the Cash Register at the front of the store so if you want to get those and come back will be more than happy to sign them. Then we ask that you keep your chairs in place. We have as many of you probably know we host a lot of events this year or every year, we need help keeping track of those we have more info desk pand check our website we updat that all the time its the best way to get that information. Campers that enough. Today we have the pleasure of hosting Matthew Algeo, an awardwinning
Bookseller here and also in charge of the first editions club. A few bits of housekeeping and we can jump right in. Pleasesilence your cell phones, we are also going to be recording video and audio. Its going to, also when it comes time for the q a portion, we have a standing might read here. Im at the end of the aisle, you speak clearly into it and keep your question to a question then following oueverything , we have all the books on sale behind the Cash Register at the front of the store. So ifyou just want to get those and come back in , matt will be more than happy to sign them and then we just ask that you keep your chairs in place. Ill need another talk after this and we greatly appreciate that. But also, we have as many of you know we host a lot of events this year, every year really and if you need any help keeping track of all those we have the calendars at the info desk and also just check our website. We update that all the time and its the best way to get that information.