mr. willman for coming today? [applause] >> is there a non-fiction author or book you want to see featured on booktv? e-mail us at booktv it's c-span.org. >> this is not just another straightforward biography of david crockett nor focus on just one slice of the pie, the alamo. there is much more to crockett than the last few weeks of his life, and it's not a regurgitation of the many, many myths and total lies perpetuated about crockett over the years. this is a book for people interested in learning the truth, or at least as much as can be uncovered about both the historical and the fictional crockett and how the two often became one, and hopefully, readers will gain new historical insights into the actual man and how he captured the imagination of his generation and later ones as well. now, a few spoonfuls from crockett, the lion of the west. the first is just a graph or two from my preface. the authentic david crockett was first and foremost a three dimensional human being, a person with somewhat exaggerated ho

mr. willman for coming today? [applause] >> you are watching booktv on c-span2. 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books. every weekend. >> the panic virus is a book that i began working on because of a reason that very much relates to what we are talking about today. a little over three years ago, which was before i had a child, i started noticing that in conversations with my friends when the issue of childhood vaccines, vaccines efficacy started coming up, the answers i would get to questions about how people went about making these decisions were answers very much in the language of intuition. it feels to me like children receive too many vaccines today. it makes sense to me that the number of antigens in vaccines overwhelms developing immune systems. and the reason i found that so interesting is because that was very antithetical to the approach and the language that my peers use when it came to other topics where there was an intersection between science and public policy. for instance global warming. if we