Come to washington after the civil war and they dont know besides. Which i think does have an impact. Are there other questions . [inaudible] all right. [applause] the book is available up to the register. I personally think you should go buy it. Im happy to sign anything. Thank you all for coming. I appreciate it. [applause] [inaudible conversations] oh, wonderful. [applause] booktv is on facebook. Like us and in the with us and watch videos and get uptdate information on events. Facebook. Com booktv. Next on booktv the life and career of Seymour Hersh. Over his career he broke stories on u. S. Government development of chemical and biological weapons. As well as the massacre in vietnam and watergate and messick spying and the abuse of prisoners in iraq. This is about one hour and 20 minutes. [applause] good evening. Thank you all for being here today and tonight. It is my pleasure to be here with you on this cold wintry evening in new york city and i got a text message just before i
President ial library here at his home in hyde park he envisioned it becomeing the people Year Research study for the roosevelt era and is one of the busiest Research Rooms in the president ial library system. We get to see the fruit of the labor of all the people who use our Research Room through the years. So its our pleasure to have how here. Would everyone please take out your Electronic Devices and turn them off so that our presentation is not interrupted today. Thank you. Second housekeeping matter, if youll find somebody on the staff here today, theyll be have to givedown of this Roosevelt Library buttons and that will get you into free admission to the new permanent exhibit we opened just a year ago after our three and a half year renovation. So i encourage you to check out the new exhibit. Finally, i want to thank our friends from cspan who are film hearing today. Theyre always great at showing support for Public Programs at the Roosevelt Library. The format of the session is
Libraries. Im very excited that we finished 27. No. 28 sin my district. Its time to get to north beach. I want to thank everybody in this community because every image is one of you here wanted to make sure that this library is fit for the 21st century. Congratulations. Thank you supervisor chew. Just so you know your library is under construction. Its also my pleasure to welcome supervisor and hes got libraries in his district as well. Supervisor scott. Thank you. Congratulations to the community on this wonderful building, this Wonderful Library in community. I was here for the Ground Breaking ats and its so wonderful to see the project complete. Some people ask me why do you go to the library. I try share vicariously through other communities the joy of getting a new library. We might be divided into neighborhoods and directs and lecture supervisor by districts, but we are one city. If you are in castro or north beach or rich mond, weve to Work Together and im so proud of our city t
Lets leave bursts check whether you will be allowed to hear me okay in back. Can you hear in backtoback is a great pleasure to be back in philadelphia today and to be back in this Wonderful Library r than small blinds, instead to give me an idea how many of you here this evening may find what i am about to tell you of practical value, would like to ask you to raise your hands to one or the other of two questions that i now pose. First, could those of you raise your hand who either are or over age 65 or hope to live past age 65. [laughter] or have a parent or grandparent over 65 . [laughter] many of you. All right. Then, the second group, let me ask, please raise your hand if you are under 65, have no intention of living past 65 and have no parent or grandparent to past 65. Raise your hand. [laughter] all right. Those of you in the first group, you are the ones to whom i think my talk this evening will be of practical value. [laughter] those of you in the second group, talk will not be
Wall at booktv or email us at booktv cspan. Org. Author Jared Diamond talks about his book and the way people live in human existence. What we can learn from traditional societies. I would like to invite doctor diamond to the stage. Please give him a warm welcome to the seminar. [cheers] [applause] let me first check if you can see be okay. Can you hear me in the back . It is a great pleasure to be back in philadelphia today and back and this Wonderful Library to talk about a subject other than gall bladders. [laughter] to give me an idea how many may find what im about to tell you a practical value. Please reason into one of the other of two questions are lasker the first is, could you raise your hand if you are over age 65 years old or hope to live past age 65 . Or have a parent or grandparent over 65 years old red many of you, all right. The second group, please raise your hand if you are under 65 and have no intention living past 65 and do not have a parent or grandparent passed 65