He wrote a book called hello called buffalo bill in begonia. Where is our Marketing Panel . We still sold it in the gift shop. People loved that because Buffalo Bills name was on the cover there. Please join me in welcoming bob riddell. [applause] thank you all very much. I will be brief. I also want to add my voice of thanks to all the organizers in the last day today and tomorrow. This is a splendid series of events. The word fun does not get often get used in the context of academics. Fun is an appropriate word to use. These are delightful presentations. Im looking forward to the ones that are upcoming. The personal privilege, 100 years ago, a massive funeral. My grandfather and grandmother were there, along with my mother at age two. Somehow, these things come around. Let me introduce our first panelist. Frank christianson, i think most of you know frank and his work. He is an associate professor of english, associate dean, god bless him, an associate dean of the college of humanit
Civil war military history is on lifesupport. Nobody cares about the civil war after the centennial. Push back. Olitely so in largeon i do part is because of the emerging civil war. And all that it is done in a remarkable space of five or six years. I hope this weekend can be a celebration of those efforts. The rugged spine of marylands South Mountain. Outnumbered soldiers saw to to stem the tide of federal offenses. If successful it would defeat and already divided confederate lee and finish off robert e s first invasion of the north. And three mountain passes almost unrivaled interest city. At least in this point of the war. Union and confederate troops struggled over difficult terrain and at close range. Veterans theyome aimed at flashes of anything. In the years after the war, writers eagerly portrayed South Mountain as a confederate monopoly. You can at least begin to apprehend the analogy. Anyone whouestion visits that field asks is how can anyone have battled these thely vertica
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 have copies of frackopoly available for 20 off at the registers which are the next room. Count is how w we want to say thank you for buying books at the Harvard Book Store your purchase ensures thet end of tenant bookstore. Questioi we are pleased to have cspan here tape in the event. When asking questions during the q a please know youll be recorded a please wait for the microphone to come before asking a question. Please please silence your cell phone for tonights talk. Very pleased to introduce our speaker. And exec winona is the founder and executive director of food and water watch which focuses on corporate and governmentnt accountability relating to food, water and fishing. She has written on food, water and Environmental Issues including director of public citizens of energy and permit program and the environmental policy director for citizen action. Her previous book, food up up late the battle of food andd farming in america published in 2012 and been released in paper bac
This book, fueling freedom makes the case for using fossil fuels as an energy resource. After that a look at the Energy Crisis that occurred in the 1970s. Meg jacobs writes about it in panic at the pump. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, look under the Heritage Foundation. We welcome those who join us ond our heritage. Org web site as well as those joining us on booktv at a future occasion. We would ask everyone inhouse to be courteous and check that your mobile devices have been silenced or turn off as we prepare to begin. K for those on line or in the future you are welcome to send questions or comments to us at any time. Simply email speaker heritage. Org and with coors will post the days program on the heritage homepage for everyone to future reference. Yo we are pleased today to be cohosting this program at their college and allies at the texas public hold the foundation,n, which kathleen is a fellow. Introducing our raymond hosting our guest toda