Photo: #James McWilliams spoke at the fourth annual Aspen Ideas Festival about his new book, "American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial times to DDT."
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James McWilliams spoke at the fourth annual Aspen Ideas Festival about his new book, "American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial times to DDT." (Photo by Dan Bayer)

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Aspen Ideas Festival 2008

The 2008 Ideas Festival, sponsored by the Aspen Institute and Atlantic Magazine, gathered scientists, artists, politicians, historians, educators, activists, and other great thinkers for a week in early July. MPR's Midday broadcast several of the presentations.

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Aspen Ideas Festival 2008

The history of insect control

Broadcast: Midday, 07/08/2008, 12:00 p.m.

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James McWilliams, fellow in the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University and associate professor of history at Texas State University, appeared at the Aspen Ideas Festival to discuss his new book, "American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT."

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