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Than 1918, when contagion ravaged the world, shuttering schools, closing businesses and killing hundreds of thousands. Here to talk with us about what became known 102 years ago as the spanish flu is Katharine Arnold who poured over eye witnesses accounts of the illness from it early beginningses at places like military nice kansas to it effect on a number of prominent american writers like john stein barbing and katherine porter. She read has she is the author of self book but the history of lo...

Degree. His roster of publications is so long that i will not even try to read them all to you. You can go to his website and get a full account of not only has publications, but other salient elements of his biography and doings. Here i will mention five books that i think are specially pertinent in what we will be doing this afternoon. The first is called abraham lincoln, redeemer president. Published in 1998. It won the first of all in lincolns prizes. Lincolns emancipation proclamation, the ...

Guest alex kellner was the name that my uncle, alexander korda, was born with and which he changed when he moved to biewd past as a University Student because it sounded deeply jewish. At first he spelled it corda, then he changed it toor host who was sir alex korda . Guest he was perhaps at the prototypical Film Producer also film director. Directed hit first film at a teenage age in 1914, and directed at least 100 and perhaps twice as many movies during the course of his life and produced i do...

Robert caro has appeared on q a and is also appeared through the National Book festival in september. House of stone, you remembered that Anthony Shadid died in syria while covering syria for the Washington Post. His wife will be here representing him and that is not a lottery. Katherine boo has been nominated in the nonfiction category, behind a beautiful forevers about a slum in mumbai india and finally Anne Applebaum has been nominated for iron curtain. That book is just out and she is schedu...

Overprograms online at booktv. Org. In an interview conducted on the campus of George Mason University during the fall for the book festival. In the book she shares her experience with growing up in mexico without her parents. Who immigrate to the United States illegally to find work. This is about half an hour. What is [inaudible] the way u grew up knowing it was it was the reference to the United States, but to me because i grew up in the hometown surrounded by mountains, i didnt know where th...

My definition of a historical novel one that makes literary history. Its quite contemporary. And i always operate under the admonition of the poet who said, make anu. Thats what i try to do. Are you exoited to be here tonight . Its fun. Its great fun. Have you attended this dinner before. Yes. I have won a National Book award. For which book . World fair. It was about 25 years ago. Anyway. Some people may not know after you you are named after edgar allen poe. I think its probably true. My fathe...

Cheney. Joining us on booktv is doug casey. Who are you . I guess im best known as an author, but ive made my living as a speculator in the marketplace. Thats probably a fair answer. What books have you written . I wrote a book in 1976 called international man. It was a guide book to the world last frontier. A personal freedom of financial opportunity. It became the largest selling book in the history of row a couple of years later. I went there during the war, i do what i always do in these pla...