Oxford university and has written for the New York Times amongs could is current lay staff writer at Science Magazine. As an epidemiologist and a researcher in training i was excited to read her book, the vaccine race, signs, politics and human cost of defeating disease. The senators for a Disease Control and prevention considers vaccinations the number one Public Health achievement of the 20th century. Indeed vaccines have saved millions of lives. It is because of vaccinations that smallpox is eradicated and the scourge of other diseases such as polio, rue la and chicken box are a thing of the past. This is a story about great achievement in Public Health and about the men, women and children who happened make the vaccines possible. Throughout this book, cob tell prayer interviews with contemporary interviews keep these individual as i live own then page, dr. Wadman does not shire airplane from the uncomfortable truth in the history of vaccines. The race remind us its important we lea
Member of the Roosevelt Library and become a member of the information table just outside the door. At this time i would like to ask you to turn off your cell phones and thank cspan for covering this today and quickly go over the format for this session. We will start with our speaker in just a moment. Then i will follow that up if you have questions make your way over to the microphone so we are able to pick up the question in the author will move down the hall to the table outside of our new deals bookstore where you can purchase the book and have the author signed them. 2012 is an adjunct member of the Arizona State university and his fields of study include Public Policy, political history, latin america, u. S. mexico border land and sanford, arizona, i want to introduce patrick lukens. [applause] thank you. I want to thank bob clark and the rest of the staff and the president ial library to be one of todays presenters. And preparing this presentation and Headline News over the pas
Moved the steelers chiefs divisional playoff game from sunday afternoon to sunday night, as the storm approaches kansas city. So what should we expect in our area tomorrow . Lets bring in nbc 10 first alert chief meteorologist, glenn hurricane schwartz. Glenn, the impact really depends on where you live, thats why the neighborhood forecast is so important. Its good for all of us, and although were just on the edge of this thing, there are going to be many, many States Affected by this in form of icing. You can see the precipitation getting closer to washington, d. C. At this hour, but you can also see its moving pretty much straight to the east, and if that would continue, it would keep most of the precipitation south of philadelphia, where the temperature is going to be the warmest. So we should expand a little bit. Heres the futurecast, hour by hour, by 6 00 a. M. , no way its snowing out there. Its not doing anything. The clouds are coming in. By noontime, parts of delaware and extr
Note during booktvs recent visit to fresno, california, we explored the thomas j. Ebert frontier collection, which includes over 2,000 books on the american frontier, at fresno state university. Well, when i was kid, the Public Library the only knock Fiction Books were books on the american wes in the Childrens Library and since ive been a nonfiction person, i got i Read Everything that i could there on the american west, primarily a on native americans. Over the years the 50s when i was growing up was a time when you had all the movies the theater, most of them cowboy movies and cowboys, programs on tv so you were sort of dish was a kid you were saturated with the american west. Just fell in love with it. Then in 1993, i began traveling through the west, and i just fell in love with it. And i quickly became came to understand that there was more than cowboy and indian fights. Just the artist triof the landscape. The culture, the history and the really deep history, the history that in
Primarily the native americans. Over the years, the 1950s when i was growing up, was a time when you had all of the movies at the theater, most of them were cowboy movies and cowboy programs were on tv. So, when i was a kid, you were sort of saturated with the american west. And i just fell in love with it. And then in 1993, i began traveling through the west and i just fell in love with it. I quickly became, came to understand that there was much more to the west than cowboy and indian fights. Its just the artistry of the landscape, the culture, the history, the really deep history. It involves so many different quite that it was different from what hollywood presented all of these years. Were asianamericans, africanamerican, hispanic the west was far more diverse in many ways then some of the places east of the mississippi river. First, im going to talk about the books i purchased on africanamericans in the west, and then im going to talk about the hispanic west, and finally talk abo