Than 1918, when contagion ravaged the world, shuttering schools, closing businesses and killing hundreds of thousands. Here to talk with us about what became known 102 years ago as the spanish flu is Katharine Arnold who poured over eye witnesses accounts of the illness from it early beginningses at places like military nice kansas to it effect on a number of prominent american writers like john stein barbing and katherine porter. She read has she is the author of self book but the history of london and her book, the world of shake pierces london was pushed in i simon and shoe center 2015. She union us from the uk, woman, california catharine; n tell to go your ofolk tuesdayed on first person accounts, doctors, flurries, children. Why did you take such a personal view of the pandemic . I wanted to write a book that people could relate to. Spanish flu where people could read it and find characters like themselves. At times almost like a disaster movie, get people stuck on the titanic or
Degree. His roster of publications is so long that i will not even try to read them all to you. You can go to his website and get a full account of not only has publications, but other salient elements of his biography and doings. Here i will mention five books that i think are specially pertinent in what we will be doing this afternoon. The first is called abraham lincoln, redeemer president. Published in 1998. It won the first of all in lincolns prizes. Lincolns emancipation proclamation, the end of slavery in america, published by simon and shoe store in 2004. Brought him his second lincoln prize. Lincoln and douglas the debate that defined america. For some reason, that did not win the lincoln price. A new history of the civil war and reconstruction came out from Oxford University press in 2012. The fifth title is gettysburg, the last invasion, published in 2013 which brought a third lincoln prize to allen. He is the only person who has won three. Others have wanted to. He is curre
Guest alex kellner was the name that my uncle, alexander korda, was born with and which he changed when he moved to biewd past as a University Student because it sounded deeply jewish. At first he spelled it corda, then he changed it toor host who was sir alex korda . Guest he was perhaps at the prototypical Film Producer also film director. Directed hit first film at a teenage age in 1914, and directed at least 100 and perhaps twice as many movies during the course of his life and produced i dont know how many, many, many, many. Europe, United Kingdom, and of course in hollywood, when he was there. He was an affable genius, and being his nephew was a fulltime excitement. Host what was his influence on you . Guest he, your father, and your other uncle . Guest well, you know, first of all, an enormous respect for talent of any kind. By definition. People were good at making films, got at recognizing talent, even though they dont share it themselves. And secondly, although they were inte
Robert caro has appeared on q a and is also appeared through the National Book festival in september. House of stone, you remembered that Anthony Shadid died in syria while covering syria for the Washington Post. His wife will be here representing him and that is not a lottery. Katherine boo has been nominated in the nonfiction category, behind a beautiful forevers about a slum in mumbai india and finally Anne Applebaum has been nominated for iron curtain. That book is just out and she is scheduled to appear under q a and show in december, so you will be able to see her as well and robert caro will be interviewing those others as we go and we will be watching the red carpet here as some of the authors have their pictures taken that right now we want to talk to the chairman of the National Book foundation and this is david steinberger. David steinberger is the head of the Perseus Book Group. If you would, tell us for those who dont know what is the National Book award . The National Boo
Overprograms online at booktv. Org. In an interview conducted on the campus of George Mason University during the fall for the book festival. In the book she shares her experience with growing up in mexico without her parents. Who immigrate to the United States illegally to find work. This is about half an hour. What is [inaudible] the way u grew up knowing it was it was the reference to the United States, but to me because i grew up in the hometown surrounded by mountains, i didnt know where the United States was to me it was the other side of the mountain. During the time my parents were gone, working here in the u. S. I will look at the mountain something i parents were over there on the other side of the mountains. That was what it meant to me. Where did you grow up . Originally where were u born. In mexico. Southern mexico in the little city that nobody has heard of. Why mention ak acapulco Everybody Knows that. It was three hours away from there. When did your parents come to the