Publication of the cigarette. Please welcome sarah milov. [applause] miz miss ms. Milov thank you so much. It is such a privilege to come and speak at the national archives. The other day, i saw a tweet about todays event, and as a historian, its kind of like having yourself name checked by beyonce. This is the mothership. Thank you so much for coming. My book, the cigarette a political history, seeks to understand tobacco in modern america, not through the lens of big tobacco in the machinations of industry, but through the efforts of Everyday Americans to get the government to intervene on their behalf. Big tobacco is still an important part of the story, but by focusing on other actors, farmers, government officials, politicians, activists, workers and labor unions, the story of tobacco in the 20th century begins to look a lot different than if we were to understand it through the actions of tobacco alone. By taking a wide angled approach, my book suggests that far from being the pr
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Like a big relief, you know, its been 10 years in the work to make this book and so it feels like a relief and its just a pleasure to be able to talk about it, to talk about it with you and tons of other interesting people. Really a page turner. Outland, the great medical scientific historian on the cigarette century. Robert proctor at stanford about the deception of the industry. Any trepidation when you started . You had three giant box out there, and you took a risk. Guest yes, but but i really feel as though with those three books, ashes to ashes, cigarette century and Robert Proctor whole corpus of work, the biggest of which is called golden holocaust, i i really feel as though i was standing on the shoulders of giants. These are fantastic works and my work is tremendously indebted to them, but when i was thinking about writing about tobacco, i wasnt approaching the same way that they were. They were very much coming at the story of tobacco from the angle of industry and when i be
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Guest host interviewing top nonfiction authors about the latest work. All after words programs are available as podcasts. Congratulations. Thank you. Your book is a major accompaniment. It is a significant scholarly work and i think its fair to say that you move the seal. Thats a tremendous good to hear from you. Thank you so much. How does it feel . Like a big relief. Its been ten years and the work to make this book and so it feels like a relief and its just a pleasure to be able to talk about it with you and talk about other interesting people. Three Major Writers spent their career studying, writing about tobacco and the cigarette and Richard Kruger one the prize its a page turner. Allen brand is late great historian on the cigarette century and Robert Proctor about the deception of the industry and any trepidation when you started that you had three nearly giant books that are out there and you took a risk. Yes, but i really feel as though with those three books, ashes to ashes an