Recounts the competition between the right brothers and Glenn Curtiss to be the man in flight. This is about an hour. [inaudible conversations] good evening, everyone. We would like to welcome you all to the rogers memorial library. My name is penny right im the director of adult programs and we are very delighted to have our discussion tonight by an esteemed acclaimed author. We would like to thank cspan book tv for being here with us this evening and when we progress to the question and answer segment, we will have a handheld microphone for you all to use to ask your questions. We are also grateful to our local independent bookstore for being here this evening as well. We are most happy and grateful however to our visitor and guest laurents goldstone lawrence goldstone. Hes the coauthor of more than a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction. Six written with his wife, nancy, and has written extensively on both american and european history. Larry has been widely interviewed on radio an