Reuters. I got this from his website. He covers everything from cannabis to knock knock jokes. His two previous books new york best time sellers adventures in the science of sleep and the king and queen of malibu, the true story for battle of paradise. Hes appeared on msnbc, fox, reuters, npr and elsewhere. His third book, again, our pick of the month, black death at the golden gate, the race to save america from the bubonic plague is the reason were here this evening. Please join me in welcoming him. [applause] thank you all for coming, especially given the weather outside. It is nice to be inside where it is dry as opposed to outside where it is wet. One thing i realized so my first book was about sleep science, and when i went and talked about that book, i realized that many people were coming to the talks because they had their own sleep disorders and they wanted to talk with somebody about it. This book is about the plague. If you think you have the plague, this is not the place f
Different directions and some of the worst tragedies on the planet, but you chose to really focus on a small town in oregon. Why . We were running around the world covering humanitarian crises and then we would periodically go back to my beloved hometown where my mom is still on the family farm and we saw a humanitarian crisis unfolding there. A quarter of the kids on my old Number Six School bus are now gone from drugs and alcohol and suicide and carolyn i tried to process that. The guys who got on the bus right after me were the map kid kids. Nathan and keelan and their sister regina, smart, talented kids. One died in a house fire passed out drunk, another blew himself up cooking math and regina died from hepatitis from shooting up. So for a while we wondered is there something about my bus, about yamhill and then we realize this is a National Problem that we have been in despair and the Life Expectancy has been falling for three years of a row and its a microcosm to see that panic a
Are living in a different environment completely and you have reported on World Affairs from all different kinds of directions in the worst tragedies on the planet but you focus on a class and oregon. Why . My mom still on a family farm in the fac place of a humanitarn crisis unfolding there. A quarter of the kids ar that we on my old number six schoolbus are now drawn from this and weve tried to process that. [inaudible] in from hepatitis he survived because he was in the Oregon State Penitentiary and we wondered for a while is this something and then we realized it is a National Problem we have depths of despair. It was kind of a microcosm to which to see that across america. You solve this through the lens of returning home and it could have been titled School Bus Number six. So many are from the friends you had growing up there and expanding from there. And you grew up in manhattan upper middle east and that is a whole different world early in the relationship you saw it on the fol
Her book is the 100th consecutive week on the New York Times bestseller list number one. [applause] Michelle Malcolm or something down there shes down there. And i assume a lot of people are familiar with the narrative and thats why you are still here on the last lecture on the second day. But to still go through some of her story because it is so gripping. It starts in idaho and actually to be it is such a beautiful setting. It was a Beautiful Mountain that i grew up on i have fond memories to be on the mountain into play on the mountain. So they get to play on the playground and there are a lot of things that could happen. I guess you would say we were the free range kids. Hardcore. But the setting and the scenery. But you are there all the time you dont want to wait but one of the things i would come back from college i would just be ruptured over how beautiful everything was. She was used to it. Like its a field there will be other ones. Your mother was an herbalist. And to have mo
For 25 years, talks about u. S. Policy in the region and the recent confrontation between the u. S. And iran. Much want to beat this weekend every weekend, on cspan2. Host please welcome doctor cory lee. [applause]. Hello there guess who i am im cory and this is kevin. And i have to give you an introduction about this person, we know to get you out of the hole that you have been living in for a while. This is tara westover. This is the 100 consecutive week on the New York Times bestseller list present number one. [applause]. Ahead of michelle something, malcolm, i dunno, down there. [laughter]. That is very cool. Im assuming that a lot of people are familiar with the narrative that and that is why youre so interested in you are still here on the last lecture on the second day. But we can still go through some of the heard stories because it is so gripping. In starts in idaho and actually, to me it is like such a beautiful setting. There must be a lot of beautiful memories that you have