Come to washington after the civil war and they dont know besides. Which i think does have an impact. Are there other questions . [inaudible] all right. [applause] the book is available up to the register. I personally think you should go buy it. Im happy to sign anything. Thank you all for coming. I appreciate it. [applause] [inaudible conversations] oh, wonderful. [applause] booktv is on facebook. Like us and in the with us and watch videos and get uptdate information on events. Facebook. Com booktv. Next on booktv the life and career of Seymour Hersh. Over his career he broke stories on u. S. Government development of chemical and biological weapons. As well as the massacre in vietnam and watergate and messick spying and the abuse of prisoners in iraq. This is about one hour and 20 minutes. [applause] good evening. Thank you all for being here today and tonight. It is my pleasure to be here with you on this cold wintry evening in new york city and i got a text message just before i
That number those number on heart anquan cert. Havent they been there forever like that . No. They are way too high. Heart disease, we have seen death from heart attacks, dropped by 60 by sporting Research Going back to the framing and that started sincety years ago. Basically laid out what are the risk factor for Heart Disease. We didnt know we discovered high cholesterol, smoking, all of those which were unknown as far as risk emerged. Out that have came a lot of development in Public Health. The development of very much something that nih Research Lead to. And a variety of other intervention including the ability to unclog arteries to the heart when it happens. 60 drop in deaths because of that research. We need go further and have idea about how to get there. Cancer certainly way too many people die of this disease. Actually the death rate has been dropping about 1 each year for the last fifteen years. We are on the right part of curve, we want to go down faster in these new develo
Next the director of civil war era studies at Gettysburg College recounts the battle of gettysburg which took place between the union and confederate armies on july 1st to third, eighteen sixtythree and resulted in 50,000 casualties. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the conflict. [applause] thank you to all the members of the Atlanta History Center and to the trustees of the living Selector Fund for making this possible, making possible for me to visit again here in atlanta this beautiful joule of the city, what a pleasure it is to be here especially at the Atlanta History Center so devoted as it is to the study of the history of the city, the state of georgia and the United States. It is great to be back again. I wonder if we could have the lights down a bit because we have some pictures to see. Looking back over 20 years, Alexander Stewart web declared that the battle of gettysburg was and is now throughout the world known to be the waterloo of the rebellion. Certainly alex w
In the suburbs of damascus rebels keep up the fight. Reporter this is a meeting about the World Economy but it turned into something quite different. The opposition grows more vocal and more dug out. After days, they were face to face. Both putin greeting president obama outside st. Petersburgs constantine palace. The two men disagree over syria, an issue that consumed the summit. I also look forward to having an extent conversation about the situation in syria and i think our joint recognition that the use of chemical weapons in syria is not only a tragedy but also a violation of International Law that must be addressed. Reporter u. N. Secretarygeneral ban kimoon here with his secretary envoy to syria is lobbying leaders for more time. There is no military solution. There is only political solutions, which can bring people and end this right now. On putins side in the dispute leaders of emerges economies and china joining russia in blocking action at the u. N. While not quite going it
Textbook which i use for my course. That book is more draw, more academic and it costs four times more than high price. Time for someone else. Thank you. Thank you all for coming. Final question . Em man has a question. I want to say how much i appreciate the book, i appreciate you, i appreciate your commitment to bring in your expertise to bear. There is a lot of anxiety, ambivalence about this to me as indicative of the deeply rooted myths that operate in our society. They have been destructive in society that have nothing to do with knowledge or facts and everything to do with prejudice and fear. Much of the continent of actor got africa are under painful misapprehensions about sex and the transmission of aids and millions of people die because they refuse to understand what is necessary to treat or prevent the transmission of hiv and i hate to think that in this day we want to not appreciate, at least information. Everyone will respond accordingly as individuals, but to somehow sug