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Here to talk with us about what we became known 102 years ago as spanish flu is Catherine Arnold who poured over eyewitness accounts of the illness from its early beginnings at places like a military base in kansas to its effects on a number of american writers like John Steinbeck. She read english at the university of cambridge and holds a further degree in psychology and is the author of several books about the history oflondon and her book globe, the world of shakespeares london published by simon and schuster in 2015 and shes joining us today from the uk. Welcome catherine. Thank you for being here with us. In telling the story of this disease you focus on firstperson accounts from doctors, nurses and children all over the world. Did you choose to take such a personal view of the pandemic . I wanted to write a book that people can relate to but theres the story about where people can read it and find characters like themselves. It was almost like a disaster movie. Weve got people o
Join the conversation with phone calls, tweets, texts and facebook messages. On booktv on cspan. Welcome. Thank you for joining us for our latest future tense social. This is very exciting for me because aim other huge fan of erik larsons books and we got to listen to a little churchill as we were warming um. Im andres martinez, the editorial director of future tense, collaboration between new america, and Arizona State university. We look at the implications of impact of technology on society and im prefer of practice our Cronkite School of journalism at Arizona State university. Its a pleasure to have you here and your latest book othe splendid and the vial a saga of churchill family and defiance during the blitz. Erik is the author of such fabulous books as dead week in the garden of beats, thunder struck, devil in white city. I have read most of your book but not read your first book. Was intrigued looking at your biography that you wrote a book called the naked consumer. How compa
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