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
Please welcome our guest speaker. [applause] hello, guess who i am. [laughter] if i have to give you an introduction about tara, you need to just get out of the whole you have been living in for a while because her book has just celebrated the hundredth consecutive week ahead of michelle malcolm, michelle, down there thats very cool. Im assuming that a lot of people are familiar with the narrative, and thats why youre so interested and youre s still here for the last lecture on the second day. I thought we would still go through some of her story because its so gripping and it starts in idaho, and actually to me at such a beautiful setting, there must be a lot of beautiful memories you still have from that. Yes. It was a really Beautiful Mountain that i grew up on. I still have really fond memories of being on that mountain and of playing on that mountain, i think its an incredible, we had this entire ground and wonderful space and a lot of great things that can happen. I guess we were
Am . [laughter] this Tara Westover and if i have to give you an introduction about Tara Westover you need to get out of the hole that youve been living in for a while. Because her book has just celebrated i think the 100th week, consecutive week on the New York Times best seller list. I think number one. [applause] thank you. Ahead of Michelle Malcolm or down there. Thanks. But thats very cool. And im assuming that a lot of people are familiar with the narrative that and thats why youre so interested and youre still here on the last lecture on the second day, but i thought we would still go through some of her story because its so gripping. It starts in idaho and actually, to me its like such a beautiful setting. There must be a lot of beautiful memories that you have with that. Yeah, i mean, it was a really Beautiful Mountain that i grew up on and i still have really fond memories of being on that mountain and playing on that mountain. I think its an incredible its, you know, the kids
Missouri, hosted this talk as part of their annual symposium. I do believe that that is my cue to head over to this ourction and give introduction for the next speaker. Beforewould like to say that, here is a little Public Service announcement, stealing person,e from another there is only one thing you can war andom the world that thing would be, dont forget to get your flu shot. Maybe it means you get to june ash enjoy even heart this evenings dinner. Im so pleased to our next speaker, dr. Nancy bristow existing list professor in history at the university of puget sound where she specializes in 20th century American History with an emphasis on race, gender and social change and serves on the Leadership Team of the race and pedagogy institute. Makingthe author of 1996 this world for it social engineering in the great war. And american pandemic, a lost worlds of the 1918 influenza she willwhos content be addressing this afternoon. You might have seen her on the american experience, most
Westover you need to get out of the hole you have been living in for a while. [laughter] her book has just celebrated 100 consecutive week on the New York Times bestseller list. It is number one. [applause] Michelle Malcolm milken is down there. Im assuming that a lot of people are familiar with the narrative and thats why you are still here at the last lecture on the second day but we thought we would go through some of her story because its so gripping and it starts in idaho and actually it is such a beautiful setting and a lot of beautiful memories that you still have. Yes. It was a Beautiful Mountain that i grew up on but i still have fond memories to be on the mountain and playing on the mountain. It is incredible we had this entire farm a lot of wonderful things that could happen i guess i was the original free range kid. [laughter] there was a lot of wonderful things about it. Then there were some difficult things but the setting, the scenery. Is not even nature works nature wal