I wanted to apologize beforehand for the technical difficulties from the storm but now its my pleasure to get this program started high passing it on to the Museum Samuel jones Senior Historian and dr. Robert citina wholl be leading todays conversation. Senate thanks jeremy and welcomes everyone from beautiful new orleans louisiana. Quite literally in the path of the storm quite literally a few hours from now and eye of the hurricane so we hope everything goes smoothly and i like would jeremy said heck or high water. We hope we dont get any today. Having said that im really excited about todays program. Every now and then in my line of work you get to interview an author that you feel like youve. Every word they have published in this particular authors case that might be difficult but some six as a writer at large for the times and the bestselling up of numerous books this the spy and the traitor and operation mincemeat doublecrossed operation mincemeat a book that many of our audienc