CSPAN QA Bill James February 5, 2018
Serial killer mystery. Brian bill james, in your new book the man from the train, your first sentence is i have long been fascinated by the notion that knowledge can be created about the past. Tell us more about that. Bill the easiest example is dinosaurs. For thousands of years people had no idea that these great beasts had ever existed. Now we have not only created information about them, but disseminated it so widely that every 4yearold child has a collection of little plastic dinosaurs. Much of what academics do is sort out the conflicts of what was said at the time to create a clearer and...