Recreation use of marijuana but should marijuana and it derivatives be used for health purposes. A very controversial issue, one in which frequently there is far more heat than light and where we frequently see people who seem to be immune to data. We have experts tonight to talk about this, it will be moderated by doctor david who is chief of Palliative Care at pennsylvania. Im a psychiatrist and i often think that most people including physicians dont understand what psychiatry is. Nobody understands what Palliative Care if its a wonderful branch of medicine and needs to be better understood. We launch the book a year ago, this is his second book he is launching here, no we do not have royalties ongy n it, but in two copies of it. Dr. David kasser at will come up in a minute, we, we believe all of you are literate, we print biographies in the program, this is not an imac went to sit up for ten minutes and read every paper that people wrote. Dr. Katz it will come up and will introduce
Can, as balanced as i can, i get to do something fundamentally creative and say this is what i think happened. We begin our look with author david berman and his book arizonas seventerm governor george hunt. If youre going to write a history for arizona and you want to tell it, you cant ignore george hunt because he was so much involved in everything that went on from 1890 to the 1930s and the new deal. A lot of reforms and the right to the water from the Colorado River. He was at the center of everything. George hunt was born in a place called huntsville, missouri, named after his grandfather. And he was in a part of missouri that was settled largely by the upper south. Tennessee and north carolina. His family came from that area. And he was raised on a farm which was devastated terribly by the civil war and raised in poverty, really, and had a tough time subsistence farming. They had to live on what they grew. Had little education. And more than willing to do with his life and decide
Serious responsibility to make sure it stays alive and that the cc is going to have to step in. Starting with the at t. Thank you we ended up agreeing on most things too. Make your mind up, i will recommend again this book and thank you professor joel mokyr. [applause] welcome to convey on book tv. Discover phoenix with a population of about 160,000 is home to Arizona State university, one of the largest public universities in the country. With the help of our Cox Communications Cable Partners , for the next 90 minutes we will explore areas three and culture with local authors. For two years, this country after the great fires of 1910 was traumatized and tried to take fire out of the landscape and the problem was that we put good fires and bad fires out. For the last 50 years, thats a long time in history of her engagement, we tried to put good fires back in its really tricky to because once youve taken fire out , restoring it is like trying to put an endangered species back in. We als
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] when i tune in on the weekend usually it is authors sharing their new releases. Watching nonfiction authors on booktv is the best television for serious readers. They can have a longer conversation and delve into their subjects. Booktv weekends, they bring you off thereafter other after arthur, not like the work of fascinating people. I love booktv and i am a cspan fan. We are about to convene our session. I have what i presume will be the very easy task of shepherding three distinguished biographers through what im sure will be scintillating conversation because they are so practiced and accomplished. I am very proud to be among them, this moderator. Do i have to say, i am a james atlas. Two of our i was about to say contestants, two of our panelists were nominated, were finalists for the la times book award last night, terry alford for John Wilkes Booth, Charlotte Decroes jacobs for joan assault, Kirstin Downey has been nominated be
It is all about Deutsche Bank, the worries out there about what investors can and cannot do. Lets focus on the banks. The banks, a story all through surveillance this morning. We will bring you the perspective, hopefully, without it sense of hysteria. A solid bid in the last hour. Francine a little bit better. Lets get to the first word news. Here is taylor riggs. Taylor leaders of dozens of countries are in israel for the funeral of shimon peres. He helped negotiate a Historic Police agreement with the palestinians. The clinton was president then. Israelstarted life as brightest student, became its best teacher. In a state ofars constant wonder. Constant wonder over the unbelievable potential of all the rest of us. President obama also spoke. He had a dynamic ideal. The u. S. Is weighing its options to stop a Bombing Campaign by russia in syria. Those attacks have left scores of civilians dead in aleppo. Russia has ignored threats by secretary of state john kerry to suspend talks on a