That all happensathath [inaudible conversations] hello, everyone, welcome to books at noon, im jessica, director of Public Programs and events at the library and im happy today thrilled to introduce lewis sullivan, dr. Lewis sullivan who is im going to have to read because his long list, he is a policy leader and Minority Health advocate and author and physician and educateor. And i wanted to just begin, i mean, its a hard to think to say because can you sinopize your life, but i wanted to in a brief way tell the audience what this book covers and then i will delve in and we will start going into specifics and and then we will build from there. Well, thanks very much, its a great pleasure to be here with you and at for public library. Youre welcome. What i would say is my auto biography tells my story. I was second of two boys in atlanta but nobody was buying life insurance. My father left atlanta and went to southwest georgia and establish it had first funeral home in georgia. Beyond
others. you are doing just a great job. i really want to thank you for being gracious to our guests, the media. thank you for covering this. we thank you so much for being respectful as you cover this event. it is funny. there is a new movement called occupy wall street. this past weekend over 700 arrests occurred. many in the media say they are patriots, but thousands of values voters say we are not so sure about that. remember my five words. what are they? don t be the weird one. all right. [laughter] our first speaker this afternoon is a man who is never caught without a copy of the constitution in his coat pocket. he worked in the iowa senate to successfully eliminate the inheritance tax, to enforce work place drug testing, enforcing parental rights, including parental notification of abortion and tax cuts for iowa voters. he represents iowa s fifth district. he is also a member of the house judiciary committee, where he sits on the constitution subcommittee and the imm