Are watching American History tv, all weekend every weekend on American History tv. Tv,ext on American History novelist and historian kevin baker discusses his book, america the genius how a generation of tinkerers changed the world. At an event in cape cod, mr. Baker describes what he thinks are key factors in the nations innovative spirit. Guestant to thank our tonight. Kevin baker has written several your, at you are still in but also was raised in rockport, massachusetts. He has experienced being a massachusetts person. Tonight,ing forward to keeping an ion the weather, but please welcome kevin baker. Mark, for having me. Great to be on the cape, if only virtually. Hoped to be there, but i am going to have to make do. Talk to you about america the ingenious, this book i wrote. The best thing about writing books is that hopefully, you learn something. I learned a great deal writing this. Americansory of how invented, developed or learned to exploit so many innovations that would sha
Introduce myself. Randy will be giving most of the presentation. Ill be here for questions and answer. Just a little background about myself. I volunteered after i got my b. A. In history from cal state San Bernardino in 2010, i began volunteering at the National Archives at riverside and then in 2012 i became a student archives technician at the National Archives at riverside and then in i got my masters degree in library and Information Science at that same time from san jose state university. And then in 2014, i moved to st. Louis and worked at the National Archives at st. Louis as a preservation technician and then in 2016 i moved back to california and then in my current role as an archives specialist. Im going to turn it over to randy here and he can give you his bio. Thank you, james. Welcome, everybody. I want to thank mr. Garza for his wonderful introduction and i also want to thank the friends of the North Hollywood library and the sherman oaks friends of library as well for
Giving away what the friends of the linebacker library love to give away more than anything else and thats some books to some lucky winners so please join us at this point in welcoming from the National Archives at wiver riverside. Randy thompson and james artoon. [applause] hi, im going to introduce myself. Randy will be giving most of the presentation. Ill be here for questions and answer. Just a little background about myself. I volunteered apt the after i got my b. A. In history from cal state San Bernardino in 2010, i began volunteering at the National Archives at riverside and then in 2012 i became a student archives technician at the National Archives at riverside and then in i got my masters degree in library and Information Science at that same time from san jose state university. And then in 2014, i moved to st. Louis and worked at the tional archives at st. Louis as a preservation technician and then in 2016 i moved back to california and then in my current role as an archiv
Please join me and welcoming these archivists. [applause] myself. L introduce y will be giving most of the presentation. I will be here for questions and answers. My banteered after i got in history from cal state San Bernardino in 2010. I started volunteering at the National Archives in riverside. In 2012, i became a student archivists. My masters degree in library and Information Science at that same time from san joses date university. In 2014, i moved to st. Louis and worked at the National Archives at st. Louis as a preservation technician. Two in 26 income i moved back to california and moved into my current role. I will turn it over to randy and he can give you his bio. Randy welcome everybody. Thank you for the wonderful introduction. I want to thank the friends of the North Hollywood library. For inviting us to come out here. I hope you enjoy the earlier events. I have been with the National Archives in Southern California since 1995. Filek a summer job as a clerk, pulling and
Overwhelming against it. I was drug czar, director of National Drug control policy, 8 990. We didnt have this kind of research then. We had some, smattering. But now it is overwhelming, the harm that marijuana does. And i just have to believe or want to believe the American People are not informed of these facts. And so the point of the book was to get these facts out so they can make a second judgment on this, an informed decision. Let me get to the end of my story. I think in colorado which has been kind of ground zero here, that they will reconsider at the end of the day. Host uhhuh. Guest try to put this jeepny back in the genie back in the boding and recriminallize because theyre starting to see the results. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. And its day two of booktvs lye coverage of the Los Angeles Times festival of books. On your screen the campus of the university of Southern California, home of this 20th annual festival. Yesterday we covered programs