Guest host interviewing top nonfiction authors about the latest work. All after words programs are available as podcasts. Congratulations. Thank you. Your book is a major accompaniment. It is a significant scholarly work and i think its fair to say that you move the seal. Thats a tremendous good to hear from you. Thank you so much. How does it feel . Like a big relief. Its been ten years and the work to make this book and so it feels like a relief and its just a pleasure to be able to talk about it with you and talk about other interesting people. Three Major Writers spent their career studying, writing about tobacco and the cigarette and Richard Kruger one the prize its a page turner. Allen brand is late great historian on the cigarette century and Robert Proctor about the deception of the industry and any trepidation when you started that you had three nearly giant books that are out there and you took a risk. Yes, but i really feel as though with those three books, ashes to ashes an
This is the problem with issuing test you yourself cannot pass. Candidatesdemocratic held their final debate of the year in n los angeles. Was009, go back and look, i on the opposite side of that with the pentagon. The only reason i can speak to it now is because it has been published. I am the guy from the beginning argued it was a big mistake to surge forces to afghanistan. You are also the guy who helped lead us into the disastrous war in iraq. What we need to rethink is the entire war on terror. Amy we will play highlights from the democratic president ial debate and host a roundtable discussion on what the candidates were asked and not asked, which candidates were included in the debate and which were excluded. We will speak with immigrant rights activist Erika Andiola, investigative or reporter azmat khan, Heather Mcghee, kristen aarke, and alan minsky progressive democrats of america who pushed for the debate to address poverty. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy
This is the problem with issuing test you yourself cannot pass. Candidatesdemocratic held their final debate of the year in lolos angeles. Was009, go back and look, i on the opposite side of that with the pentagon. The only reason i can speak to it now is because it has been published. I am the guy from the beginning argued it was a big mistake to surge forces to afghanistan. You are also the guy who helped lead us into the disastrous war in iraq. What we need to rethink is the entire war on terror. Amy we will play highlights from the democratic president ial debate and host a roundtable discussion on what the candidates were asked and not asked, which candidates were included in the debate and which were excluded. We will speak with immigrant rights activist Erika Andiola, investigative or reporter azmat khan, Heather Mcghee, kristen aarke, and alan minsky progressive democrats of america who pushed for the d debate to address poverty. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democra
That is a tremendous thing to hear from you thank you very much. It feels like a big relief. Ten years in the works to make this book and so it feels like a relief and it is a pleasure to be able to talk about it with you and other interesting people. Host Major Writers spend their time studying, writing about tobacco and cigarettes, Richard Lugar won the Pulitzer Prize for ashes to ashes. Guest is a page turner. And about the deception of the industry. Any trepidation on when you start because you had a giant book out there and you took a risk. Guest i feel with those books, the biggest of which is called golden holocaust, i feel i was standing on the giants of shoulders and my work is tremendously indebted to them but when i was thinking about writing about tobacco, i wasnt approaching it the same way they were. There was so much coming at the story of tobacco from the angle of the industry and when i began the project in a much more humble state as a graduate student, i began by thi
Viewing on cspan which has been a supporter from the first year. We appreciate them very much, im with goodwin with the Mississippi Department of archives, if youve not already done so please silence your cell phones. Our panel this morning isa spotlight on mississippi civil rights. We thank bradley both cummings from sponsoring it, theyve also been withthe w book festival since the beginning, where grateful for that early support and for their sticking with us. We are in this room today, thanks to foreman watkins law efirm. We appreciate their support. Our panelists are Natalie Adams, Michelle Purdy and hezekiah watkins. Purchase copies of their books from vendors outside and you can find the times our authors will be signing in your programs. We will hear from our panelists forabout 40 minutes, and open the floor to questions. Please come to the podium in the center of the room to ask your questions. Be carefulof the ramp, dont trip. Now let me welcome our moderator, pamela said dc j