tba -- tva was wonderful. so we end up with a very difficult question. >> well i think it's time for us to wrap it up tonight. i want to show you the book you want to look for thomas hager's book and i want to thank you thomas hager for being with us and thank you for everyone who joined us tonight. i hope to see you again soon in our next author talks. >> i started writing this book a year before covid-19 began and i think one of the points of this book is what is happening with covid-19 is not the extraordinary event that they claim it is but it is but rather accommodating event of a lot of unraveling that's been happening over the last few years. it kind of chronicles and i don't want is a total collapse that partial unraveling of global health infrastructure and all the things we put in place which includes a lot of vaccine diplomacy and vaccine diplomacy i defined broadly as corporation between nations around global health. vaccines are powerful tools in global health and the beginning of it goes with the

future, just as we did when we built the transcontinental railroad or we electrified the country - the tva. look, at the same time, the house and senate have to advance my build back better agenda. that bill contains critical investments in childcare to make it easier for families to be able to go to work and assure their child is being taken care of, and home care for seniors. the polling data shows: among your generation - all of you out here - your greatest concern is caring for your elderly parent, even more than your child. it's about paid leave - allowing people with a new child or a sick spouse at home to take care of them without risking losing their paycheck - not indefinitely, but for a time period they can actually make a difference. universal pre-k and community college - making us significantly better educated and increasing our competitive edge globally, around the world, over time. and we'll combat climate change by building our clean energy future, creating - the experts point out - millions of jobs and building windmills and solar panels all around the country, and transfe

stop henry ford and they built their own version in this new way of living and they called that the tva they grew out of ford's ideas as well. one more thing before we get into q&a. along with everything else it was going on in the early 1920s as ford was trying to make a national place for the government to give him what he wanted so that he could build the city, he wanted control over vast area and he wanted the world's biggest dam. that didn't happen. what did happen was henry ford decided the easiest way for him to get what he wanted might eat it become president. this tells the story of how close henry ford came to becoming president of the united states. he was a serious candidate for several years. i've got to admit i'm one of them at a number of observers he thought if anyone had at the time of being the president of the united states. he would run on a platform that incorporated the idea of this electric city that he wanted to build and his vision for america and that's what he wanted to run on. it didn't happen and i tell the story in the book but we came close to having a pre

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the tva, the tennessee valley authority, had electrified this huge rural area. but all of the farmers living there didn't have the money to buy electric appliances or electric lights for their homes or electric refrigerators. if you don't have appliances or lights that use electricity, what is the good of having electricity, and how are the electric companies going to make any money? so the electric home and farming authority issued loans so people could buy appliances and electrify their houses. the resettlement administration, which was an organization, an agency meant to help displaced farmers find new homes, also made consumer loans. and here, you see some pictures of folks paying off those loans. these pictures are very important to try to gain legitimacy for these types of programs, by showing that people would pay the loans. okay. the efforts of the new deal -- the efforts that the new deal implemented to bolster purchasing power had long-term effects and significance. pocketbook politics played a very important role ever since an american elections and i

future just as we did when we built the trans continental railroad and electrified the country with tvao advance my build back better agenda. it contains critical investments in childcare to make it easier for families to be able to go to work. assure their child is being taken care of. home care for seniors, the polling data shows among your generation all of you out here your greatest concern is caring for your elderly parent even more than your child. it is about paid leave allowing people with a new child or a sick spouse at home to take care of them without risking losing their paycheck. not indefinitely but for a time period they can actually make a difference. universal pre-k and community college. making a significantly better educated and increasing our competitive edge globally around the world over time. and we'll combat climate change by building our clean energy future, creating experts point out millions of jobs and building windmills and solar panels around the country and transferring that energy, transmitting it to parts that don't have that capacity. we'll bring down t