He has three books to his credit including after gettysburg, lee retreats and another. He lives with his wife, chris. Thank you. [applause] my wife kris is here in the audience tonight. Welcome, everybody to the book talk about my latest book called after gettysburg. The great radio commentator always talked about the rest of the story, so this is kind of the rest of the story. A lot of people come here to learn about the threeday battle of gettysburg. We talked about that battle, but this book attempts to answer the question what happens after the three days are over . The story is pretty well known. The story after is not as wellknown. You might remember the battle was a threeday battle on july 1, 2, and 3 just outside this building. 160,000 soldiers for three hot days, then there would 151,000 or missing. Unded, it was a bloodbath. It was a turning point in the civil war, and this is where Ibrahim Lincoln gave the most important speech in his Abraham Lincoln gave the most important
Textbook. So, when i refers to schulman, that is what i am talking about her tonight we are using the 1973 film soylent green, starring Charlton Heston as a window into both the Science Fiction film genre and into some of the most difficult domestic 1970s, wherethe all of the president ial administrations but for president jimmy carter. So that is why we are using soylent green. A quick synopsis. This film is set in a dystopian future. It is not a utopian ideal. Where everything is terrible. And the big problem is overpopulation. Lyw york city is wild overcrowded with the population of of Million People. By way of contrast, the Current Population of new york city is 8 million, five times the normal population of new york city. Which is outrageous. The Soylent Corporation oversees the citys food supply. So that is where we get our title soylent green, the food supply mostly consists of variouswafers kinds, dried vegetables, dried protein and so forth. The newest food the corporation is