one of william halsted's colleagues, the great internist, separate man from animals is a desire to take from us. and it's true. it's true. we all want something that will make our lives better, that would make my sciatic pain less, that would make us less nervous, we all want a simple pill, pop it, gone. and i think that's a very human phenomenon that also conspires into office, that the quest to heal ourselves with some kind of the drug, some feel. >> part of what makes this all fantastically one of the best i've had in a decade actually is that the way you carry out these two different characters and the differences. and i'm wondering if you tell us more about halsted seems to be costly on and off the wagon if you will wear as freud freud at a certain point stops or seems to, so tell us about those differences. >> that is another wonderful, you can find two people in hospital more at odds, more different, psychiatrist or psychoanalysis and the surgeon. they are different species. my medical school report terms as howard is not a surgeon. for years i didn't realize that was not a couns

her sigmund freud and william halsted both for reading at max the shrieking at six. he approaches this not only from the point* of view but also can tell an extraordinary story. he approaches a scholar the history of medicine but also a clinician with experience if you will of the seduction of the wonder drugs with a means to work in a clinical culture where when new drugs and new techniques are discovered, people feel a sense of trying to use them wisely how far they can go and what they will do. when radiology was first brought into being, what it produced was a raging said of disaster is. radioactive and could not get through airport security any more. we that as of me, the fact of the matter is a very few people could combine a real clinical experience for the desire for cure with a sense of new technology of wonder drugs in the real history of the archives and a dam a wonderful storyteller combined to give us all the not just my dollars these things and planning for the department of defense. and then serves as the principal historical consultant on in for this

i want to recommend to you all this marvelous book, "an anatomy of addiction: sigmund freud, william halsted, and the miracle drug cocaine" by doctor and professor howard markel. i want to thank you for coming and i want to thank c-span. and a half of the institution of humanities and the ann arbor book fair and the hatcher library, thank you, howard markel. [applause] >> for more information visit the author's website, howardmarkel.com. >> we would like to hear from you. tweet us with the book, twitter.com/booktv. >> and now i booktv, joseph mccartin recounts the professional air traffic controllers organization called for an illegal strike in august of 1981 and the subsequent firing of the strikers by president ronald reagan. this lasts an hour and 10 minutes. it took place at the jimmy carter presidential library and museum in atlanta, georgia. >> hey, everybody, thank you for coming tonight. before i introduce joseph mccartin i would like to say a few words about what led to the collaboration between the two libraries on this event. some of them you may know that they are guys which is p