Congratulations. Your book is a major accomplishment. It is a significant scholarly work. I think its fair to say you rule the field. Thank you thats tremendous hearing that coming from you. Thank you so much. How does it feel . A big relief it was ten years in the works to make the book and is just a pleasure to be able to talk about it with you and tons of other interesting people. The three major rivalries spent their careers studying writing about the cigarette from Richard Kruger the Pulitzer Prize ashes to ashes. An amazing book it is a page turner. The great medical scientific historian and and Robert Proctor at stanford for industry any trepidation and you took a risk i feel as though those books ashes to ashes and the biggest of which is called golden holocaust i felt like i was standing on the shoulders of giants indebted to them but when i was thinking about writing about tobacco i wasnt approaching at the same way that was from industry and when i began this project as a Li
That is a tremendous thing to hear from you thank you very much. It feels like a big relief. Ten years in the works to make this book and so it feels like a relief and it is a pleasure to be able to talk about it with you and other interesting people. Host Major Writers spend their time studying, writing about tobacco and cigarettes, Richard Lugar won the Pulitzer Prize for ashes to ashes. Guest is a page turner. And about the deception of the industry. Any trepidation on when you start because you had a giant book out there and you took a risk. Guest i feel with those books, the biggest of which is called golden holocaust, i feel i was standing on the giants of shoulders and my work is tremendously indebted to them but when i was thinking about writing about tobacco, i wasnt approaching it the same way they were. There was so much coming at the story of tobacco from the angle of the industry and when i began the project in a much more humble state as a graduate student, i began by thi
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Good evening, everyone. Good evening. Thats good. Thank you all for being here. My name is kirk brandt, were delighted to have you here for the four evening book talks and i begin by thanking the Ford Motor Company for their partnership, and theyve done a lot for us including endowing this book talk series. Im personally able to welcome back nathaniel philbrick. And i asked to introduce him because whenever i do that, im struck by his bona fides as a true renaissance man. A ba from brown university, and he was a james duke fellow and a worked as an editor at sailing World Magazine and wrote and edited several sailing books, the yachting wind, and the parody. And hes the author of mayflower, as well as a book heart of the sea, National Book award for nonfiction. In 2010 he published a book called the last stand, it was New York Times best seller. It was a New York Times notable book and ala notable book and attempted into a 10 part tv series and adapted as we speak into a 10part series
Ahead 50,000 Police Officers are deployed across france, as security is tightened ahead of the first round of voting in the countrys president ial election. We put them in the sport because it is quiet. They will be happy. And they have access to our garden and oui they have access to our garden and our neighbour s garden. In this spot. A helping hand for hedgehogs how a village in East Yorkshire has take on their closes rivals tottenham, in the first of this weekends fa cup semi finals at wembley. And ben has the weather. A decent weekend in prospect. Plenty of dry weather. Even some sunshine. But there is a big change on the way for the start of next week, something much colder on the way. All of the details in about 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. The conservatives are attempting to play down speculation that they will raise taxes if they win the general election. Yesterday, the chancellor, phillip hammond, hinted that the government might abandon the pledge made at