she said now that robert sandler has found a place, a rightful place in history, it was as if her decade-long haunted memory had come to an end. i think that s in some ways finer praise then any that i have personally received. i think i have time for one more passage that i m going to read, and this is from the end of the book in which takes up a very different kind of challenge. the first kind of challenge that i described to you is the challenge of storing making which is how do you populate a book. the challenge that appears in the content. a book like this also faces a very different kind of challenge and that s the challenge of summary making, which is at the end of the book how to summarize 4000 years of history? how does one prepare to give, how does one tie up all of this? the quick answer is there is no simple solution. that s something you learn in the book. one of the challenges of this book is there s no path answer. i did not want
debate, have your students debate a subject from one perspective and then flip it around and have them debate the other side. and then write a position paper that you know, involves multiple points of view. that is such a valuable thing for young people i think. sometimes i don t tell them what sites they are arguing until 15 minutes before so they have to learn both sides of an issue, and then they can t get stuck in one point if you. can watch this and other programs on line at otb.org. up next on booktv, the winner of the 2011 pulitzer prize in general nonfiction presents a history of cancer. the author recounts the early documentation of the disease and profiles of the first patient to receive radiation and chemotherapy treatment. this is about an hour and a half. i have a personal relationship to the bookstore. i was a student close by here and i m a graduate from a foreign country, and when i could get my spirits up i would come to the bookstore and spend time here.
and then they can t get stuck in one point of view. .. something wonderful about things coming back. so thank you very much for having me here. and thank you for those really wonderful words of praise. i must say though my favorite praise that i received for the book came this morning when i was reading through my e-mails and someone sent me a little note from some blogger who says, are there cliff notes for the the emperor of all maladis . it s been my lifelong ambition to a have a book which there are cliff notes. if anyone is inspired to write cliff notes i would be delighted. i thought i would begin today, rather than talking about the content of the book, i thought i would begin today talking about process because that s more interesting. it s something you don t get from just reading the book itself, sort of a behind-the-scenes look what motivated some parts of the book and how they got written. the first i have to offer a note of apology, which this book, when it was
and so then this is about page 60, i said, have no idea who this child is and i m on page 60 and i can t find the first patient or first few of the patients with leukemia the only thing i knew about this child was that he was the years old, and that he had lived in boston, and his initials were rs, because that was all that was in the paper. and so i began i was in boston. i sent out e-mail0s on list serves which said issue if you happen to know a child called rs with leukemia in the 1940s, please right to me. and months peace passed by, and no response whatsoever. and i kept saying, i m on page 60. this book is going to get written. then i got rejected, and i thought i went on a vacation to my parents house in india, and someone said to me, the chemist only one biographyer, and someone said to me, well, he lives three blocks away from my parents house in india. so he said to talk to him. so i said, final. so i went and talked to him, and we re having a conversati
as a question of opportunity that has to be maintained, and he came to see slavery as a barrier to people enjoying that. okay, i guess that s it. as we said, since we live in a capitalistic society, they are selling books over there which i ll be happy to sign, and thank you all for coming. [applause] .. historian ron turner discussed his book washington:a life at the miami book fair international. he was the winner of the 2011 pulitzer prize in biography. this is about 45 minutes. washington was dignified, stoic, hero can fiercely devoted. but he was also a slave owner. and unyielding tax master, somewhat maine and a failure at business. unlike his peers, jefferson the middle matteson, hamilton and adams who were college graduates washington had only the equivalent of the seventh grade education. ron chernow was born in brooklyn and he is an honors graduate of yale and cambridge. he is considered to be one of the most distinguished commentator on politics, business, fina