these are very iconic people, avoid -- sigmund freud. there is a love triangle. it is interesting because you have tons of material. this was a lecture-writing era in vietnam. there were some wear -- a letter writing era in vienna. but there was something like five deliveries a day. it was basically like e-mail. we have tons of information about them and they reported in great detail things they said about each other, what they ate, what they drink. from the process of resurrection, i wanted to make them come back to life so i could feel them and see them and small them. tavis: there are two things that i want you to unpack for me. in no particular order, one, since you made the distinction between this kind of. peace and the others who have done before -- this kind of period piecce and others who have done before, what is the challenge in bringing these real-life characters to the screen? >> you have a lot of freedom, even in casting. if it is people who are physically well known, you are limited. you have the age range, but you have the physical stature. most p

freud who was not yet sigmund freud was studying to become a neurologist in vienna looking at the hospital that was the place of all the world greatest doctors in surgeons but not so great if you're a patient and more of a place where the diagnosis was key because we did not have a lot of treatments back then. that is where hand washing was first discovered to be an important issue something some doctors are working on learning but freud became very interested and did so not only because he thought this could make my name not only to become a professor for neurology you have to discover something to be really great. i love learning about that because he was an ambitious medical student very eager to please and somehow i could identify the remembered a a medical student very well i remember the desire to succeed not knowing if i would and also had a very good friend who was a very talented physiologist the love to dissecting -- dissecting the cadavers developed such a raging infection well before antibiotics, that he developed a tumor that causes phantom pain of the unimaginable levels and

one of his patient by the way was sigmund freud. was taking quite a bit of cocaine to the point that he had stuffiness and had to have a hot heated knife to burn a hole in his nasal cavity so he could breathe. so they treated erma in this way. he left for berlin and erma nearly died. freud had a dream about this. the way he interpreted is that i'm such a good physician, so conscientious about this that when my patience go sour, i feel bad for them. he was telling himself as you've told me, the same big live at excel themselves, my edition is not that bad, my prom is not a. and yet at some level he must've known that not only did almost kill somebody, but his career would have been ruined. that would've been malpractice. there would've been no sigmund freud and it was around this time that he had this dream and that his father died. he wrote by the way i put the cocaine brush aside. there's no evidence in his letters. kievo so many letters, and he's telling you what he wants you to know about himself. so he probably stopped using coc

story of carl jung and his relationship with sigmund freud. and the patient that comes between them. great performances in it. karaing knightly is the standout actress. very bold, daring performance that she turns in here. the movie gets sideline spots but for the most part it's good. i think kara knightly will get an oscar nomination. if you are the history of violence he transformed himself. he's not in horror movies. he's got a bit more dramatic. >> real quick your grade on that one? >> i give at it b. i think this is another one definitely worth seeing. >> another one getting oscar buzz, george clooney starring in "the descendants." let's take a quick peek at it. >> okay. what's going on this week is really a family matter. do you understand. sid will not be interested in meeting your grandparents. >> dad, i told you he was going to be with me. i'll be a lot more civil with him around. >> okay. so this one, this is a case of george clooney's character, his wife dies and is re reunited wi his kids. >> this is family drama. relatively heavy.

one of his patients, by the way, was sigmund freud. taking quite a bit of cocaine to the point that he had stuffiness, he had to have a hot, heated knife to burn a hole in his nasal tissue so he could breathe. is they treated emma this way, and fleece left a sponge in the surgical wound. he left for berlin, and emma nearly died. freud had a dream about this, and the way he interpreted it is that i'm such a good physician, i'm so conscientious about this that when my patients go sour, i feel bad for them. dreams are wish fulfillment. and he was telling himself as you've told me the same big lie that addicts tell themselves every day, my addiction's not that bad, by problem's not that bad. and yet at some level he must have known that not only did he almost kill somebody, but his career would have been ruined. it's not too much to say that would have been malpractice as the time. and it was around this time that he had this dream and his father died. he wrote to fleece, by the way, i put the cocaine brush aside. and there is no evidence

spirit i want to recommend to you all this marvelous book, "an anatomy of addiction: sigmund freud, william halsted, and the miracle drug cocaine" by doctor and professor howard markel. i want to thank you for coming and i want to thank c-span. and a half of the institution of humanities and the ann arbor book fair and the hatcher library, thank you, howard markel. [applause] >> for more information visit the author's website, howardmarkel.com. >> we would like to hear from you. tweet us with the book, twitter.com/booktv. >> and now i booktv, joseph mccartin recounts the professional air traffic controllers organization called for an illegal strike in august of 1981 and the subsequent firing of the strikers by president ronald reagan. this lasts an hour and 10 minutes. it took place at the jimmy carter presidential library and museum in atlanta, georgia. >> hey, everybody, thank you for coming tonight. before i introduce joseph mccartin i would like to say a few words about what led to the collaboration between the two libraries on this event. some of them you may know that they are guys wh