From the beginning to the end. It came out in 2006, actually won a pulitzer prize. As a polio victim myself, i have always had a special interest. Ii thought with the pandemic going on there are some lessons that are particularly in regard to vaccines and one of the things we been preaching lately is get vaccinated. En of course one of the big differences between the situation we find ourselves in now and polio is that it took 70 years, 70 years to come up with two effective vaccines for polio. Our marvelous country enter marvelous pharmaceutical came up with three vaccines in less than one year to give us an opportunity to get past the pandemic. One of the most interesting things about the polio. Was fdr came down with polio and 39. Most people thought it was a childrens disease. But it did hit adults from time to time. And his own struggle to come back andll ultimately go all the way to the white house, he set up warm springs, a place he would go after he was afflicted because the springs were warm, down in georgia, and it made him feel better to get in the water. That led to the establishment of a foundation which led to something that was commonly referred to as the march of dimes. And ultimately, after about his death they help finance the research and its a fascinating story about taking a particular disease, turning it into a prominent sales campaign. They actually financed the march of dimes largely by, listen to this, passing their hat in movie theaters for people to drop theirou dimes in. They actually raised enough money to fund most of the research and also the facilities that developed at warm springs were the best physical therapist in the country, at that time, or. I wasen fortunate enough to be about an hours drive from warm springs. My mother took me over there, they taught her physical therapy regimen. I was an outpatient. And she would go back home and heres one of the things they told her a 2yearold Boy by the way 2yearold Boy, dont let him walk. So she mustve watched me like a hawk every daye all day to keep me offff of my feet. She would do these exercises on my left leg in the hopes i would get enough of a comeback, if you will, to not be wearing a brace for the rest of my life. One other tidbit related to fdr, we compared my outpatient visits to warm springsth when fdr was there. He was there to times when i went over for visits, including, including the week that he died. He died at warm springs in april of 1945. Host do you have residual effects from yours. I do but have lead a normal life it affected my left quadricep and have always had difficulty going downstairs, i was never particular good at running. But ive had a normal life. Many polio patients died some ended up in iron lungs for interminable period of time or had lifetime disabilities way more severe than mine. So i was fortunate. I had a mother who pursued her instructions relentlessly i was very lucky i was lucky to be near warm springs. That was the one thing at that time with the best techniques were to try to bring you back to normal. When you were reading where Theree Aha moments going to you as a Policymaker Today . When i was reading the Book Question it. Yes. Public Relations Campaign led by the president of thehe United States would getet entertainers and others interested in promotingit was a little like a campaign. Apparently was the first public campaign devoted to going for treatment to a disease. That is what was unique about it. The genus is the president meant for good at selling things. They turned it into a campaign that reached a broad audience actually produce the funds to pay ultimately for the cure. Spill it you mention usually uread american history, and the last six months whatou if you been reading . Speech it John Marshall Harlan the great center thats the case of plessy versuss ferguson. Went to college in kentucky, he went to what they called a Law School in those days at transylvania in kentucky. Kentucky was a Border State during the civil war. He sided with the union, had political aspirations, tried to be elected governor twice as Aaf Republican after the war but curiously enough, kentucky even though it never seceded sort of went over to the south after the war and became totally democratic. Harlan had a famous Law Partner Name Benjamin Bristow who served in the Grant Administration. And harlan thought, bristow would be the perfect candidate for president of the United States on the republican ticket. After eight years of the Grant Administration which had a lot of scandals, bristow was the Guy Grant brought in to try to clean up the mess. The mess in those days was the Customs House in new york which brought in revenue for the government. They made Bristow Secretary of the treasury but he was the first Solicitor General of the United States. And so he was thought of as mr. Clean. And harlan was his friend and for a short period of time his law partner. Im sure the two of them talked about it. In those days if you wanted to be president nt you did not admit it. You had to act like you were being drafted. So the republican convention is in cincinnati, not too far frfrom louisville. At Harlans Hometown at that point, he goes to the Gop Convention in cincinnati with the Goal Ofpr getting the18 nomination for president of the United States in 1876 with Benjamin Bristow his Goodd Friend mr. Clean. After a few ballots it became clear to harlan that he was not going to build a pull it off. And so on a key role call, four or five times in the convention, harlan blows the bristow government to haze you can imagine the rest of the story. Its not uncommon in those day for president s to put their campaign measures on the supreme court. In Fact Abraham Lincoln did that. And so in 1877 in the first it was not Benjamin Bristow who was appointed to the supreme court but John Marshall Harlan. I served from seven to 1911. The reason every Law Student knows John Marshall highland, when he was before the Senate Judiciary Committee was asked who is your favorite supreme court justice, John Marshall Harlan. Interestingly enough Marshalls Father named him John Marshall after the most significant chief justice in american history in the hopes his young son might end up on the supreme court and by golly he did. So the sole Dissent And Plessy vargas versus ferguson was this. Segregation on railcars with constitutionally impermissible under the newly passed amendments to the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, sole dissent. It readsik like the majority unanimous decision and brown versus board of education 58 years later. That is where John Marshall hardens photograph is on my wall and i was thrilled a few months ago toth see this new book had come out about his life and times. It is a marvelous read, extremely well written i highly recommend it to your viewers. Host when you find time to read you need to schedule it . It takes me a while to finish a book. Typically a read them on planes, or on weekends. Im not one of those people who can read at night. I am usually sleepy. I am not what ill call a fast reader. I probably read eight or ten bucks a year person. Most of it is in the area of not surprisingly, american history. Another book i read recently was marvelous book about the Truman Dooey 40 election. That sort of thing is typically what youll find in my briefcase. What about any books on another famous Kentucky And Henry clay. I read a lot of o them. If you live in kentucky, everyone has heard of henry clay. In fact, i did my senior thesis in college on the compromise of 1850 which is clays last compromise in his quest to hold the union together with all the strains and stresses we had related to slavery. Theres been a lot of books written about henry clay. Ive certainly not read anywhere near all of them but ive read a number of them. Host java recommended books your colleagues . I do occasionally. This Harlem Book we were just discussing, i am recommending to all of the members of my conference were particularly interested in the law and supreme court which is a significant number of ourbe members. Any fiction in your reading . Iin confess, i really read fictionn. The last book i read, interestingly enough was also about polio it was a novel it wass called nemesis. It was like a historical novel , the characters were made up but facts were similar. It is about the Polio Epidemic of 1944 which simile enough was the last was the year i came down with it. Host Yosenator Mcconnell Couple asked question your 2020 opponents, Amy Mcgrath has a new book coming out. Is that when they will catch your attention at all . Gosh honestly i dont usually read current books. There are a lot of them. I might take a look at it. It might have some mention of me. [laughter] Host Center at Mitch Mcconnell Republican Leader of the u. S. Senate, thank you for your time on book tv. Thank you. Heres a Look Look at some books being published this week. In peril at the washington Posts Bob Woodward and Robert Kostka Report on the transition between the Trump And Biden administrations. Former Fda Commissioner and Physician Scott offers lessons we can learn from the Covid19 Pandemic and uncontrolled spread. And, and Vanderbilt Cnn Anderson Cooper and Historian Katherine Howe provide a history of mr. Coopers mothers family, the vanderbilts once one of the wealthiest families in the country. Also being published this week, jessica nor del explores the possibility of unlimited and unconscious biases in the end of bias. In the contrary, Bloomberg Businessweek Tech reporter looks at the life of Silicon Valley Investor and entrepreneur who