Thank you. Your book is a major accomplishment. It is a significant scholarly work. I think its fair to say you moved the seal. Thats a tremendous thing to hear coming from you david, thank you so much. How does it feel . Like a big relief. Its been 10 years in the work to make this book so it feels like a relief and its just a pleasure to talk about it. Talk about it with you and tons of other interesting people. Three Major Writers spent their careers studying writing about tobacco and the cigarette. Richard kruger, when the Pulitzer Prize for ashes to ashes. Amazing book. Really a page turner. Alan brandt, the great medical scientific historian on the cigarette century. And robert at stanford about the deception of the industry. Any trepidation when you started . You have three giant books out there. And you took a risk. I really feel as though with those free books, ashes to ashes, cigarette century and Robert Proctor is whole corpus of work. The biggest of which is called golden h
Such interesting comments and questions. Booktv continues on cspan2, television for serious readers. The invention of yesterday. The invention of yesterday a 50,000year history of human culture you got me at the title. Even if you are not a history buff, in the scary unprecedented times it is incumbent on all of us to look back to see where we have been and how we have got here and hopefully some perspective of where we are going. This 6year investment produced a global history of the human journey which takes us from the stone age to the virtual age. Tamim ansary poses the history of the world is a story we. Telling one another and since there is no single circle of storytellers there must be many world histories. This dramatic journey asks us in all the narratives form a single big story of our planet and it is what it might be. This explores links and Ripple Effect that stitched the fabric of history. There is a lot of pivotal moment. Is anybody finished reading it . Just came out.
If it stayed the same, make your thoughts known at 2027488002. If you want to text us, 2027488003 is how you do that. You can post cspanwj and you can post on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. A couple of pulls from earlier this month that talked from support polls earlier this month that talked about support for the president. An average of 86 of republicans approved of President Trump during his time in office and his Approval Rating has not dropped below 79 in any individual poll. If you take a look at another poll looking at the president s approval amongst republicans, 62 of people who approved of the job donald is doing as president say they cant think of anything he could do that would cause them to lose their support. That is according to a Monmouth University poll. The sample size for the question, 401. Under the why it matters section saying the figures come in the inquiry. An impeachment not a single House Republicans voted in favor of a resolution formalizing impeac
Speaks to a very live and significant controversy politics the subject has been in areas, subject of an enormous amount of thought and argument in the last few years and the question nationalism of the nation in place in our politics and its connection to some of the forces and threats as been drawing the politics of the west. In recent years. And well hear from rich a little bit about the book and he and i will then discuss it for your a few minutes and then we will open it up to questions from you. Who please lets welcome rich lowry. [applause]. Rich thank you. It is a pleasure to be here. Thank who much for your making the time. I will share with you what has been my favorite moment from my book to works of art. I say he came in on the second day. As an npr interview. And we are his practice, i like to say of this professor in. Who they do, as they hope you as a conservative. If you on history or policy and then theyll have a professor on like in the middle of your presentation or r
Ladies and gentlemen, the recipients of the National Humanities medal, the claremont institu institute, lazano long. Patrick j oconnell, james patterso patterson. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States and mrs. Trump. Thank you very much, please. The first lady and i would just like to welcome everyone to the white house, a special place, very, very special. No matter where you go in the world, this is one of those places that you never forget. This afternoon it is my immense privilege to present our nations highest honors for contributions to american art and culture, the National Medal of arts and the National Humanities medal. Please join me in congratulating each of todays recipients on their really, and i mean truly phenomenal achievement to the incredible achievement and congratulations to all. [applaus [applause] with us today are vicepresident mike pence. Mike thank you very much. Secretary steven mnuchin, secretary betsy devos. Thank you very much, betsy. Cha