We are tired about railing in raising the government. We will always do it. That is a valid response and i cant help myself from raising it in the air but the fact of the matter is we want to live free and we want to know how to grow tomatoes in liberty and like our neighbors and be valuable members of the community. To some degree id rather be a Good Neighbor than a good libertarian and i know there is a conflict there but if i had to choose i would choose the Good Neighbor. Wendy mcelroy is the author of the art of being free. You are watching booktv. Some booktv, encore booknotes, gina kolata sat down in 2000 to discuss her book about the devastating flu outbreak of 1918 that killed 40 Million People worldwide. The author use letters, interviews and news reports to compile data for the book. Its about an hour. Cspan gina kolata, author of flu the story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it. Other than being one of the longest titles weve
c-span: gina kolata, author of flu: the story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it. other than being one of the longest titles we ve had, why d you write this? guest: i got in i never really thought much about the flu. it just seemed like something that came around every year, and people would just get sick and then they d get better again. and i d never really been interested in it at all. but then a few years ago i m i m a reporter for the new york times, and i wrote an article for the times about a really miraculous discovery. there is a guy at walter reed army medical center and he was reporting in a in a technical journal called science magazine that he had somehow managed to get some lung tissue from a soldier who had died in 1918. and in that lung tissue, there was still fragments of the virus that had killed him. and when i interviewed this man, dr. taubenberger, about his work, he told me about the influenza pandemic