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Hilary and for now i am pleased to introduce tonights author and his new book the fever of 1721. Stephen coss has a bachelors degree in journalism. He has worked as an Advertising Agency copywriter and served wisconsin Election Officials when he is not working or writing. The fever of 1721 tells the history of the worst smallpox epidemic to hit boston. It set the stage for scientific advancement including the controversial but effective smallpox inoculation. The pittsburgh gazette calls this book solidly told and the wall street journal called it a deeply researched account. Please join me in ...

Frequent morning joe contributor and our fearless leader, president of the nonpartisan council on Foreign Relations in 2003 but today we are here to listen to Richard Haass the prolific author and academic who had come out with another book entitled not very ambitiously, slightly ambitiously the world a brief introduction, in about 300 pages. He calls it a departure from his previous books. I want to start because it was only after you turned in the manuscript that the world was confronted by the covid19 pandemic and in the two months since that happened this crisis has highlighted so many of ...

Susan jeff guinn, what is the story you tell in the book, the vagabonds . Jeff the story i meant to tell is how america morphed into a car culture, from horse and wagon to everybody wanting cars to go places. I did not know until i started researching that henry ford and Thomas Edison were at the forefront of this, so the book became a story about that point. Susan how did the idea come to you for telling this story . Jeff what i try to do is go everywhere the people i write about went. I always use my car. Id rather drive, and that way you really get a sense of place. Somewhere along the line...

Survive the crash. The pilot of the Pakistan International airlines eight 320 transmitted a mayday shortly before the crash. Witnesses said they saw the plane flying low with flames coming from one of its engines. At least three people on the ground were injured. Any report is out today, showing how many jobs were lost here in california in the month of april alone. More than 2. 3 million jobs were lost in our state. The Unemployment Rate jumped 15. 5 , the worst economic setback since the great depression, when unappointed was an estimated 25 . The unapplied rate during the recession in 2010 ...

Forecast. Mary. Len, im tracking those temperatures through your Holiday Weekend and theyre really going to soar. A live look with mostly sunny skies in the 60s and 70s and well continue to watch the temperatures climb. Its a breezy afternoon along the coast and right around the bay. Heres what to expect, mostly sunny seasonal temperatures, breezy along the coast and right around the bay this afternoon heating up looking ahead to the weekend with highs inland on sunday in the 90s and especially for memorial day. Really going to see the temperatures skyrocket. Looking at San Francisco for highs...