Thank you. Your book is a major accomplishment. It is a significant scholarly work. I think its fair to say you moved the seal. Thats a tremendous thing to hear coming from you david, thank you so much. How does it feel . Like a big relief. Its been 10 years in the work to make this book so it feels like a relief and its just a pleasure to talk about it. Talk about it with you and tons of other interesting people. Three Major Writers spent their careers studying writing about tobacco and the cigarette. Richard kruger, when the Pulitzer Prize for ashes to ashes. Amazing book. Really a page turner. Alan brandt, the great medical scientific historian on the cigarette century. And robert at stanford about the deception of the industry. Any trepidation when you started . You have three giant books out there. And you took a risk. I really feel as though with those free books, ashes to ashes, cigarette century and Robert Proctor is whole corpus of work. The biggest of which is called golden h
Host your book is a major accomplishment. Its a significant scholarly work. I think its fair to say you move the field. Guest that is tremendous to hear coming from you. Think you. Its been ten years in the work so it feels like a relief and it is a pleasure to be able to talk about it with you and other interesting people. Host writers spend their careers studying, writing about tobacco and cigarettes. Richard kruger won the pulitzer prize. The great medical scientific historian and robert proctor. Any trepidation when it started . You took a risk. Guest i feel with those books, the biggest is gold in holocaust i feel as though i was standing on shoulders of. My work is indebted to them. When i was thinking about writing about tobacco i wasnt approaching it in the same way. They were coming out of the aftf tobacco from the angle of the street. When i began the project in a much more humble state as a graduate student, i began thinking about agriculture and farmers which is probably no
To have actual images of when i give a talk. This is something of a departure for me. Heres how the structure is going to work. Im going to give very brief introductions for the four people who are sitting here at the table with me and ill do all of them at once. And then im going to go in the order in which these images are going to appear and have each of our Panel Members talk about why they decided to be part of this project. And why they selected the image that they selected. Theyll talk for a little while about the image and then well see where the conversation goes after that. Youll be able to have questions. Let me introduce everybody up here. Ill start with carol riordan, the professor of American History at penn state university. Carol and i taught together there for a long time. Shes the author of a very important book on civil war memory, the military side of it. With a sword in one hand, the problem of military thought in the civil war north. And shes a coauthor with tom v
And use actual images so this is something of a departure for me. Here is how the structure is gonna work, im gonna give very brief introductions for the people sitting here at the table with me and i do all of them at once i will have each panel member talk about why they decided to be part of the project and why they selected the image they selected and they will talk a little about the image. Then we will see where the conversation goes after that so very briefly, let me introduce everybody i will start with Carol Reardon who was the professor of American History at penn state university, one of the important books on the military side of history, with a sword in one hand and germany and the other the problem of military thought in the civil war north and to field guide books of the battle of gettysburg and antietam. Next on the line is edward ayres who is a professor of humanities and president of the university of richmond. The most recent publication is a thin line of freedom and
To the subcommittee as well as the oversight committee. We are delighted to have you. Lets see. Without objection i want to wave onto the subcommittee, stephen horseford from nevada who wanted to ask questions. By unanimous consent we grant that privilege. I want to thank witnesses for their ongoing cooperation, you and your staff have been truly excellent partners in this oversight process. Thank you for your work, i learned from my district staff, you toward Silver Spring in montgomery county, maryland, these are diverse high density areas with high concentration of immigrants where a variety of languages are spoken and i appreciate your coming out to take out our community, my district director kevin connor met with your staff and was encouraged by the bureaus preparation so i thank you and your staff for your hard work. We have a lot to accomplish before 2020. We were embroiled in a battle over the Citizenship Question. Now that the administration is forced to stand down, the effor