And taught High School History in new york. He is also native of new york and an Intelligence Officer in the naval reserves and the book he is going to talk about tonight is his first book and were really pleased to have charles here, the author of nation builder. John quincy adams and the grand strategy of the republic. Thank you. Good evening. Thank you very much for the introduction and also for helping me set up here this evening. Id also like to say im really excited to be here at island books, supporting a local independent book store which we should also purchase many, many books from and id like to thank judy crosby, the owner for inviting me here. For those in the audience, you look up, theres a boom mic. Of you look back theres a camera. This means that cspans booktv is filming this event, and shy tell you as an historian, as a professor, as a nerd i have hit nirvana. I have made it. Im very excited to be speaking here on booktv as well. Most importantly though id like to tha