will come. can you hear me? @. welcome to the fourth annual tucson has developed books. my name is katherine morrissey and associate professor at the history of the university of arizona. and today my role is to introduce these wonderful authors then to moderate a session on the great depression. looking back at the worst hard times. would like to first thank the university of arizona medical scanner for doing this particular venue. as well as all of you. thank you all for your attendance. this presentation will last about an hour and is going to include questions and theories from all of you and will ask you to hold those towards the end of the hour. at the conclusion of the session the authors will go out to the mall, to do media signing area. those are right along the student union in the mall and their books will be available for signing and you ll be able to continue in a conversation we started here. last reminder, cell phones. please turn them off. and all of us, too
tucson festival of books. my co-chair is daphne gilman who s here in the audience, and you ll see more of her good work if you go down to science city at the far end of the mall. we go beyond books, and we talk about science here. the, this is one of several, actually nine c-span programs to be broadcast live from this location plus live streams from somewhere else on the campus, and i want to give a warning to our c-span audience out there in video land, because we re going to be talking about blood and guts and murder and mayhem and sexual perversion, government malfeasance, medical malpractice. so you may think you ve tuned into a reality show or perhaps [laughter] a presidential primary debate [laughter] don t touch that dial. [laughter] you re on the right cable channel, and we re going to be talking about some serious science with some serious authors. deborah blum, the author of the poisonous handbook, to my far left. douglas starr, killer of little shepherds.