Prose. My name is alan and i am a bookseller here where we host close to a thousand authors a year. For a full list of everythingg that is confirmed for the rest of the year please go to the website, politicsprose. Com where you can pick up one of the monthly event calendars throughout the store with a current listing going through the enden of october. Before we get started today i would like to ask you to please silence your cell phones so as not to disrupt the event and when it is time for the qanda, please step up to the microphone so that we can hear your questions as we are recording and cspan is recording for booktv. We will have a signing right here at the table so if you havent already purchased the book, we have plenty of them upfront ate the registers. And then if you could fold up your chairs and leaned them against something solid, that would be a great help. Without further ado, tonight i am excitedso to welcome Jack Goldsmith to politics and prose. Celebrating the newest
Where you can pick up one of our monthly event calendars throughout the store with the current listing going to the end of october. Id like to ask you to please silence your cell phones so as not to disrupt the event. What is time for q a id ask you to please stop up to the microphone so we can hear your question as we are audio recording it and cspan is recording for booktv. Following q a will have a signing at this table. If you havent already purchased the book we have plenty of them right up front at the registers. If you can fold up your chairs and leaned them against something solid would be a great help. Without further ado, tonight im very excited to welcome Jack Goldsmith to politics and celebrating his new work in hoffas shadow. There been many theories about the fate jimmy hoffa, longtime president of the International Brotherhood of teamsters sense he disappeared and 75. Many involved Charles Chucky obrien half his age and goldsmith stepfather. The when the perspective he g
Raising my own family just down the street, i feel incredibly proud to call myself a true blue chicagoan. Anybody else feel that way . [applause] it makes me even prouder to now be part of this fantastic chicago ideas team who works each and every day to challenge our city and the world beyond to share ideas, inspire action, and ignite change. Chicago ideas is all about deep curiosity in pursuing connectivity. So in that spirit, who doesnt love a good friday net icebreaker, id like to ask you to take a moment to tune to a person you dont know and introduce yourself why you are here tonight and share what your most trusted source of political news might be. Might be a bit of an oxymoron so give you 60 seconds. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] okay. Its going be tough for me to try to get this room back, you guys. If i can, everyone, if i can get everybody to i love your all getting to know each other. The point of time after the program is over. This would probably al
At one point, pigs were running loose through the villages, sometimes abandoned villages. Like a nightmare scenario but it really happened, like something out of early Cormac Mccarthy or the book of exodus, infectious pigs running wild to the countryside, coughing. One fellow called at the 1mile barking cough because you could hear the sick pigs coming in due new york pig farm would be next. Real story. Nissan encephalitis is this disease in humans. This is what the disease scientists do, they go out and try to solve the ecology and evolutionary biology of these new diseases. Where does the virus live, what is the reservoir host, how do humans come in contact with the virus, what are they doing . And ecological disruption that causes the spillover. It gets into sometimes and eating intermediate animal, pigs, in australia a virus falls out of back and get into horses. Pigs or horses are referred to as the amplifier host, the virus reproduces abundantly in them. They showed lots of virus
Our pick of the month, black death at the golden gate, the race to save america from the bubonic plague is the reason we are here this evening. Welcome david randall. [applause] thank you all for coming, especially with the weather outside. It is like to be inside where it is dry. One thing i realized, my first book, when i went and talked about that i realized many people are coming to the talks because they had their own sleep disorders and wanted to talk to somebody about it. This book is about the plague. If you think you have the plague this is not the place for you. There is a hospital three blocks that way, that is where you should go instead. One of the questions people ask me is how did you get interested in this book, the last book i wrote was about malibu. They use to own all of malibu, how they got it, how they lost it. One of the main characters comes up to San Francisco in 1900 and read the letter the bachelors wife, this is the weakest place i have ever seen and there ar