Complete Television Schedule vit booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours, and this weekend even more hours of nonfiction books and authors. Television for serious readers. Next, heres malcolm gay. His week, the brain electric. And now i am very thrilled to introduce malcolm gay to left bankbooks. Malcolm is an arts reporter for the boston globe. He priestly worked as a contributing writer at the New York Times and the critic at large for our very own river front times. His writing has also appeared in wired, the atlantic and time among other publications. In 2004 the society of professional journalists, norb norb Northern California chapter, named gay outstanding journalist. His work has since received other National Accolades including top honors in 2008 from the association of alternative news weeklies, and in 2009 from the National Association of black journalists. In 2010 gay was awarded the woodwardbernstein award for the missouri [inaudible] gay studied philosophy and art at the Colorado C
To introduce our speaker Richard Preston during his undergraduate work and got his ph. D. In english from Princeton University where he studied 19 century nonfiction writing and the author of nine books on a variety of topics including Infectious Disease and a childrens story and the author of many nonfiction pieces including a piece just last week entitled the old wars preston published the hot zone with the accidental outbreak and a colony of research monkeys and virginia in the 80s. The hot zone sold millions of copies and terrified millions of readers. For example, novelist stephen king said the first chapter is one of the most horrifying things i have ever read and then it gets worse. [laughter] i am also sure the hot zone inspired many readers to consider and pursue careers in epidemiology and Public Health with a fascination from what we know today. The most recent massive outbreak occurred for the first time in west africa put speeleven back on the bestseller list 20 years afte
In your mind, what did you think should be the number one priority. We will take your calls and comments. You can also join us on facebook and twitter. From the headlines this morning, including this from the Washington Post. There is also this story from the huffington post. Aspirations including closing the Educational Achievement gap. The lofty goals may have to wait as lawmakers and the president toppled a number of issues that cannot wait. Lets go back to the inauguration from generic 20, 2009, a few hundred feet from where we are at as he addressed the nation. He will do so again january next year. This is what he said nearly four years ago. [video clip] we must dust ourselves off and begin the work of remaking america. [applause] everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of our economy calls for action bold and swift. We will react to lay a new foundation for growth. Electrical grids that bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place and raise Hea