Thanks for coming, especially on a day like today. Who won the game . Ouch. Bad or close . [inaudible] well, okay, 2121, okay, well, okay, we can live with that. Anyway, thanks for coming. Like she said, i spent 20 years flying fighters, never actually intended to write a book, came about more or less by accident. Anybody watch the fox and friends interview earlier, last week . Probably not. They asked me the same question, and, you know, its not something one thinks about, and we dont talk about it very much so i think its a good glimpse into a world that, again, is not normally accessible. Ive been really surprised i shouldnt have been but surprised by the interest of teenagers thinking about a possible career and what it might take and is the air force academy, how do you get in the air force, what do you do, that sort of thing. I think its opened a lot of eyes which is good. More than that, i wanted it i wanted to kind of expose a little bit of whats happened in the last 20 years b
To talk about his excellent new book the boston globe called reflective, raunchy and refunding that get that kind of press and live a life like fax. The topic will remind us we have a president ial Campaign Going on in which there is a human cry about what is truth and what is fact and what is a fly and the rhetorical exaggeration there was a time in history when there were really great flyers. Remember goldwater talking about nixon i cant tell you what he said about Richard Nixon because this is a Family Library and the Family Television tonight. But there was a time. Just very briefly and clinton as a family with a certain kind of character here on page 150 assembling about the draft one subject only and the identity sometimes he outright lie. More often he shaded the truth ceasing to feel entitled to constructive events in ways that work to his own benefits. I happen to be at yale in the number of graduate when they were in law School Together and the one wonders about the attractio
We are tired about railing in raising the government. We will always do it. That is a valid response and i cant help myself from raising it in the air but the fact of the matter is we want to live free and we want to know how to grow tomatoes in liberty and like our neighbors and be valuable members of the community. To some degree id rather be a Good Neighbor than a good libertarian and i know there is a conflict there but if i had to choose i would choose the Good Neighbor. Wendy mcelroy is the author of the art of being free. You are watching booktv. Some booktv, encore booknotes, gina kolata sat down in 2000 to discuss her book about the devastating flu outbreak of 1918 that killed 40 Million People worldwide. The author use letters, interviews and news reports to compile data for the book. Its about an hour. Cspan gina kolata, author of flu the story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it. Other than being one of the longest titles weve
Having Seth Rosenfeld here whos an alum of the Journalism School as well as the daily cal and went on to enjoy a long career as an Investigative Reporter at the San Francisco chronicle. And all that time and i stayed in touch with seth all those years, ive known him for at least 30 year, going on 40 years and for all that time almost seth was involved in his own personal quest for the question of what was really going on here at berkeley during the 1960s when all those events were taking place. And the result is this book, subversives the fbis war on student radicals and reagans rise to power. Its an extraordinary book, and when i read it finally and, by the way, i was waiting for years to read it and hearing about it its an extraordinary book because its written primarily from the perspective of the fbi, a voice that we rarely hear in public and one that when we hear it, were not sure what to think until we see their documents. And this book is based, as i understand it, on 250,000 do
For us thats consumed, bought, and sold, the stage upon real estate being sold and hotels and stays in hotels, and tourist packages, ect. , and how complicated the actual human geography of the place is. Theres imagined place and theres the lived place. Im going to take you to northern new mexico briefly here. Angela chose northern new mexico. Shes from central new mexico, and both of the families have issues with addiction, and that was another point of end counter between us. She chose northern knack, i northern new mexico, i think, not to be right next door to her family, but close enough to visit often, and, also, because northern new mexico, theres a espinola valley along highway 68 coming out of santa fe ultimately and if you have driven there, you go through that espinola valley called the low road. That place has i highest rate of addiction and death from overdose of heroin of anywhere in the country and has for a long time, and the problem is not getting better, but its gettin