Science of modern Ground Combat in her book, grunt. Youre watching a special tuesday night additional book tv on cspan2. Patricia bell scott sent book the firebrand and the first lady explores the relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt civil rights activist polly murray. The author recently discussed her book with historian mel painter in new york. They are are introduced by the director of the house carol holzer. This is just over one hour. Good evening everyone. Im harold holder, director of the roosevelt house, as always its a pleasure to welcome all of you to what is essentially the first of our evening Public Programs to mark womens History Month. March is womens History Month and please remember that part of the celebration is an opportunity for you to have another look or perhaps your first look at the womens suffrage material that we have on the upstairs. I was going to say only through the end of the month, will be announcing an extension but dont let that tonight we are going
Combat prejudice book at a bookstore and corte madera california. This is 45 minutes. [inaudible conversations] okay once more if i can have your attention please. Can everybody hear me in the back . Also if you are in the back and anybody is standing with us a half monitors on tonight. Theres a monitor in a cafe and a monitor by one of the registers of the registers next use of anyone wants to get a slightly better view you can go to the cafe or that monitor out there. Welcome to book passage. I am dana kelly and its size a pleasure to have mary roach back. Shes been here for any number of british titles and thats always a pleasure to have her back to book passage. Grunt is about what the military has to go through. We are not going to mars tonight. We are going to the front lines and there are some things that i certainly didnt know that you will find out tonight about what the military has to go through in various ways. And i will just mention one which i dont know if mary will talk
We are talking about the history of Death Investigation, the evolution of the system of Death Investigation in the United States, which really matures and comes to age in the dawn of the 20th century. It is a 19th century story of how Death Investigation becomes Forensic Science and ultimately becomes the csi series. Now we all have a pretty lurid sense of Death Investigations provided by local news, right . This graphic is everywhere, i found a million of these. Always the same with the police tape and the chalk outlines. So we have a very lurid sense of Death Investigation. , it leadsf it bleeds school of journalism in the United States. I want to take the evolution of this system very seriously and talk about how it developed over time. Starting with the historical importance. And the most obvious area in which Death Investigation is critically important is to the criminal justice system, and this is the most familiar aspect of Death Investigation in the United States. Coroners and
A thick blurb from the boston globe, beautifully written and disturbingly funny as her previous books, grunt examines the researchers who are leading the charge in these state of the art developments. An engaging anecdote of reflection. Mary is also the author of the curious coupling of science and sex, spook, science tackles the afterlife and stiff the curious lives of human cadavers. And her writing has a appeared in about every magazine you can possibly imagine. Shes going to be in conversation with our own jeff greenwald, the author of five bestselling books including shopping for buddhas, future perfect how star trek captured planet earth, and jeff is also on our factory factory. [laughter] yeah, jeff works in our factory. [laughter] and besides that, hes also on the faculty of our travel writers conference, so if there are budding writers in the audience tonight, you can find out more about our conferences. Theres a mystery one in july and one in august, and jeff will be on the f
Website, booktv. Org. [inaudible conversation] okay. Once more if i can have your attention. Can everybody hear me in the back . If you are in the back and anybody is standing we have the monitors on tonight. There is monitor in the cafe and by one of the registers next to you. If anyone wants to get a slightly better view you can go to the cafe or monitor out there. Welcome to book passage. I am dana kelly. Pleasure to have you and pleasure to have mary roach back. Shooe has been here for a many number of tight ldz and it is always a pleasure to have her back. Tonight is grunt. It is about what the military has to go through. We are not going to mars tonight. We are going to the frontli lin and there are things i didnt know about and you will find out about what the military has to go through in various ways. I will mention one which i dont know if mary will talk about. Part of the things we learn is how diarreha can be a threat to the nations security. Mary wfs brilliance is beautifu