back to to be doing this is a collaboration between upl in the harvard bookstores were to think we can all acknowledge public libraries independent bookstores are indeed essential in the support of her reading literacy and curious inquiry which we will be exploring a little bit tonight. i am interested to start out by just wondering what brought you to this cold war. and what got the book going for you? >> books often take form in particular ways. sometimes a seed gets planted in your head and after a couple of years are going to have to do something with it. and in this case i taught a classwa more than 20 years ago and is teaching a new york for graduate students on the 60s. i thought it was a really successful seminar. at the end of the semester i asked the students if they'd be interested if i wrote a book about the 60s. they all t said no how well i actually went around the room and they all said no >> to the arty north and they needed to know about the 60s? >> kind of revolution at making a painting of campbell soup camp, in 1999 every city could do that. you seem interested what

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to find out about the book you can get it from the harvard bookstore. follow me on twitter.at's just a quick overview and now we have time for a few questions. host: and hello thank you so much for that informative talk. we have some great ones from the audience. so i will just start off for the question that says what things do you currently do for your attempt to live longer? >> there is actually a chapter of health advice i call it how to live long enough even to live longer if i could live longer than i can be alive in time for more treatments to be developed. it really compelled me to follow some health advice. some of that is apprising me obvious like not smoking or eating a variety of foods with exercise and sleep. what i found these more compelling but secondly because once you understand the biology of aging you realize this health advice it slows down the aging process. is not like exercise only benefits your heart or muscles but it's a whole aging process. it improves your brain power cognitive decline on - - decline. it is incredible i highly recommend it. i know

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so on behalf of harvard bookstore, the division of science and the harvard library has a good evening everybody. keep reading and please, please be well. thank you. >> can be prevented by expanding vaccine literacy. i started actually writing this book about a year before covid-19 began. i think one of the points of the book about what happened with covid-19 isn't the extraordinary event that many claim it is but a culminating event from a lot of unraveling that's been happening. all the things we've put in place which includes a lot of vaccine diplomacy as cooperations between nations around global health and vaccines because they are such powerful tools in global health and the beginning of it goes with the beginning of vaccines so when edward jenner developed the first in the 1700s he was immediately called upon to mediate the prisoner exchanges between the french and the napoleonic war and thomas jefferson used his vaccine as a goodwill gesture to send the vaccine with the lewis and clark expedition in the wilderness with native american groups. the more modern version began with

so on behalf of harvard bookstore, the division of science and the harvard library has a good evening everybody. keep reading and please, please >> here's a look at some books being published this week. in nightmare scenario, washington post reporters examine the trump administration's response to the covid-19 pandemic. carol brawn suggests the pandemic was used to purposefully destroy small businesses this war on -- in the war on small business. and and the impact former president trump had on american politics. also being published this week, this perfect police state, journalist jeffrey cain reports on surveillance in china by its government. and the argument that white progressives often perpetuate racist stereotypes this nice racism. find these titles this coming week wherever books are sold and watch for many of the authors to appear in the near future on booktv. >> during a virtual event hosted by the mark twain house and harriet beecher stowe center, historian hu ya bay looked at the history of traveling while black in america. >> part of it, ida b. wells' moment of political