Welcome to the texas book festival. Im joined today by two incredible authors who are going to help us unpack American Health care. Katherine eban, who whens an investigative journalist, a Fortune Magazine contributor and an Andrew Carnegie fellow. Her articles on pharmaceutical counterfeiting, gun trafficking and coercive interrogations by the cia have Won International attention and numerous awards. She lectures frequently on the topic of pharmaceutical integrity, bottle of lies the inside story of the generic drug boom, her second book, was published bihar per collins in by harpercollins in may. Based on a decade of reporting, the book takes readers into manufacturing plants where the majority of our low cost generic medicine is made. Educated at Brown University and oxford where she was a rhodes scholar, eban lives in brooklyn with her husband, two daughters and newfoundland dog romeo. Dr. Marty makary works at Johns Hopkins university and author of the New York Times bestseller un
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And august we have printed calendars by the information desk. Everything thats been confirmed to ththe last three months you l find there. If you havent already purchased two nights but i would encourage you to do so. There are a bunch behind the registers for sale and there will be a signing afterwards write here at this table. So, the line will go down from the register up to here. If you could help by folding up the chairs when the talk is over and leaning them against something solid, that would be great and in the meantime if you could silence your cell phone to keep everybody focused in the room and also you will see there is a camera over a year, cspan is recording of the talk and you dont want to be the person whose phone goes off in the middle of a broadcast. Also for that reason, we have a microphone right over here and that is for the audio qanda when it gets to that time i encourage anybody that has a question whoever you are to just go up to the microphone and line up and
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