American automobile past present and driver, less its available for sale and please join me for welcoming him this evening. On applause thank you so much, that was really lovely, thank you amanda, really generous and sweet and production, i thank everybody for being, here otherwise id be year but myself, i on especially, amanda has told me that these people reminded me of how engaged these audiences are that come to these events, so i feel like i have to be up on my toes and give you my a game to take this seriously and be a little intellectual, be a little heavy if talking about the past, president , and future of the automobile, theres a lot of material in the book on everything from teaching my daughter to drive to a freudian analysis. And a little bit of this theory of how one understands that. At the end of the day i want to talk about a little bit about the theory anne and the reason im doing and is to put us in the present moment, whereas you may have heard, drivers cars are on
Exercise. They are also personal trainers. [laughter] plus one of them is named pira pirate. [laughter] where did you come up with this idea and what was the hardest thing about writing the book my agent who was a tough minded lady told me that ive written enough about the climate and it was time to try something else. I was updating a tech book and then discovered no one has doneo this. They specialized in two things. One is sitting in the outbox and the other one is like you they get up and arrange themselves on the keyboard and the only solution is to keep the books to them and the last book i dedicated two my cat whose name was atticus otherwise known as the great keyboard. [laughter]. I have to ask you one question since you have written betweenen 40 to 50 bucks as i understand it cant tell us how you did this. How can you write that much in a lifetime . The years of undetected crime. This isnt like writing your life story or Something Like that. It all started in africa where i w
Booktv weekend. They bring you author after author. We are very happy to have you all here today. Thank you to cspan book tv for being here. We are delighted to have henry who is an acclaimed historian engineer and bestselling author and also the alexander professor of engineering and professor of history at duke here tonight to discuss his new book. Hes written many books for both engineers and laypeople alike. Pushing the limits, new adventures in engineering and many more. This is the first time that hes here with us today and im thrilled. And my boss wanted me to mention to you we have a collapsed storm water drain in the parking lot so we are eager to hear more about infrastructure. Thank you. [laughter] thank you very much. I am pleased to be here. I want to talk about the infrastructure in particular. The aspects that are discussed in my book. The title suggests it is mainly about roads and bridges but more generally its about infrastructure and the funding of infrastructure and
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