but tonight i am delighted to welcome author thomas hager. publishers weekly calls ub illuminating portrait of a little-known chapter in american history. mister hager is an award-winning author of numerous books on the history of science and medicine including the alchemy of air, a jewish genius, doomed the scientific discovery spent the world what fueled the rise of and hand-drawn, plants powders and bills have shaped the history of medicine. he is the courtesy associate professor of journalism and mitigation at the university of oregon, so please get a warm virtual welcome to thomas hager. >> thank you. it's good to be here and to chat about electric city which is as kathy noted, i write mostly about the history of science and medicine. and this book is really less about science per say although there's a fair development, development of the electricity industry in thebook . it's more about people and hang on, i want to make sure. that we are on and working here. >> you are good. >> sorry, i got an error message. so it's more about people a

tonight i'm delighted to welcome author thomas hager, publishers weekly called electric city, up bookdiscussing this tonight from a little-known chapter in american history. he is an award-winning author of numerous books on the history of science and medicine including a jewish genius, a do tycoon and scientific discovery that fueled the rise of hitler and how plants, powders shaped the history of medicine. he's the courtesy associate professor of journalism and communication at the university of oregon so give a warm virtual welcome to thomas hager. >> thank you. thank you. good to be here. as kathy noted, i write mostly about the history of science and medicine and this is really less about science although there is a fair development of electricity industry in the book, it more about people and hang on, i just want to make sure that we are on and. >> your good obligate flex mckesson i got an error message on my side. more about people, really i thought were fascinating people in american history and how it changed the history of the united states. the two main characters in the bo

this is a book you want to look for, we've been talking about tonight and i want to thank you, thomas hager, for being here with us, i think everyone who joined us tonight and we hope to see all again soon at our next author talk. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> booktv continues now on c-span2, television for serious readers. >> we are joined by two important thinkers, two thinkers and writers who long admired each other's work and the occasion of his new book brings us together in conversation, and i think we're going to have a chance to just witness a fantastic dialogue. jacqueline rose new book is "on violence and on violence against women," went on sale this week. you can find it at our stores and at our website. just a small little plug for the book. congratulations, jacqueline, on the publication of your most recent book. i sought in the store this week. i forgot to bring a copy to hold up so that's a mistake and bike park. there go. thank you so much. jacqueline rose one of the world's leading feminist literary and critical cultural critics. she's the codirector of the birkbeck institute 40 minutes, co

. >> i want to welcome you to the hudson library and that societies like that with ry thomas hager to discuss "electric city: the lost c history of ford and edison's american utopia". i'm kathy toombs, one of the adult services librarians at the hudson library and we have quite a few exciting (coming up in june and you can learn about and register for them at hudson library.org. also i'm very excited to say we will be offering live morning meditations, it and yoga classes outside our patio this summer