Ebola and beyond. If you have any noisemaking devices, if you could take a moment and just silence them now. Sonia will read for about half an hour and then take as many of your questions we can fit into 20 minutes and then sign books afterwards. We encourage questions, but need you to use actually the one microphone thats here on the right by the pillar, so that everyone can be involved in the conversation and also for our cspan audience. After the event is over, great help if you fold up your chair and place it against a bookshelf, and it will be time for the book signing, and the books are for sale where you walked in. Sonia shah is an investigative author whose work has appeared in the new york times, the wall street journal, scientific american, among others. Her books include crude, the story of oil, body hunters, testing new drugs on the worlds poorest patients and the fever, how malaria has ruled human kind for 5000 years. In tonights book, pandemic, she discusses history inclu
Bill good evening. My name is bill leggett. I am a bookseller. On behalf of the entire staff welcome. , its a pleasure to have you here and a pleasure to be hosting sonia shah. And hearing her discuss her book, epidemic, trekking from cholera and beyond. If you have any noisemaking devices, take a moment to silence them now. Sonja will read for about half an hour and then take as many of your questions we can fit into 20 minutes. And then she will sign books afterwards. We encourage questions, but need you to use actually the one microphone thats here on the right by the pillar, so that everyone can be involved in the conversation and also for our cspan audience. After the event is over, if you great help if you fold up the chair and place it against a bookshelf, and it will be time for the book sailing book signing, and the books are for sale when you walked in. Sonia shaw is an investigative author whose work has appeared in the New York Times and scientific american, among others. H
In military service have sacrificially given their time, comfort, strength, ambition, and health. Reward them one hundredfold for their sacrifice and service, blessing them more than they can ask for imagine. We pray in your merciful name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer the clerk will read a communication to the senate. The clerk washington, d. C. , november 9, 2017. To the senate under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable dean heller, a senator from the state of nevada, to perform the duties of the chair. Signed orrin g. Hatch, president pro tempore. The presiding officer under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. Morning business is closed. Unde
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War ii veterans, key have a receive e social revolution in america. So thats the ultimate legacy of the veterans activism, is the g. I. Bill of rights, which i think most will agree a transformative piece of legislation for average people during that time frame. Military service is a powe politicizing experience for millions of american men in the 20th century. This government wants you to serve, go home, and mover on, but we see veterans becoming a very potent Political Force in American Society in the 20th 20th century and theyre politicized and not just groups like the American Legion or grouped a vow indicating for veteran benefits but we see Civil Rights Movements coming out of these wars. Africanamerican veterans come home and they energize the Civil Rights Movement in an entirely new direction, provide new leadership, and new ideas and that transforms the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. World war i does matter in american history, actually is a pivotal conflict that