[applause] good evening. Well as you can guess im not an impartial observer when it comes to Andrew Burstein. Were both early american historians as mentioned we have coauthored madison and jefferson published by random house. We also write regular pieces for salon. Com, and we are real historians. We are professors at lsu. We have doctorates. We know things. And andy also is on the Advisory Board of the papers of Thomas Jefferson in princeton. Andy has written numerous books on early american political culture, but his new book is different. This book is about the many ways in our contemporary society although he is going to start with fdr but its about the curious, humorous and at types pathetic ways that modern politicians and public figures adopt and manipulate Thomas Jefferson. And they can claim him as you see, for whatever ideological position they want to embrace. Thus we have the subtitle of the book how Thomas Jefferson became an fdr liberal reagan republican and a tea party