BookTV video

Here it is–for some reason I’m not able to embed it, but C-SPAN has the video of my Washington DC talk on The Fever in their online video archive.

http://www.c-spanarchives.org/program/294937-

It’s been brought to my attention–by Mark Powell, of Arlington, VA–that I misspoke during the lecture, and said that hundreds of thousands of French workers died of malaria and yellow fever while attempting to build the Panama Canal. My apologies! The figure is the still-shocking tens of thousands of workers. Thankfully, I got it right in the book (page 151 for those of you inclined to check).