thank you very much. i m at the age where my memory is not so good anymore. but i do believe that all nine of my books have been invited by barnes & noble to speak. i am very grateful for that. i hope everyone supports brick and mortar bookstores. they are very important places. okay? better? okay. this one? should i start again? all right. thank you for coming. yes, so thank you everyone for coming on this lovely night. thank you to my publisher, viking books and my friends there here. my family and etc. okay, so today is the actual publish date of the book and i haven t spoken about yet. this is an experiment of of a best of what to say. i was thinking that one question that liberals often ask about the present moment is a franklin roosevelt could do what he did and could talk the way he talked, why can t barack obama do anything like him? talk anything like him? i thought it might be useful to think about the state of liberalism that franklin roosevelt embodied. and then
you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. my name is jay, i have the pleasure of working for and representing koch communications. and on behalf of koch communications, we are actually thrilled to kick off c-span s 2012 cities tour. and what better way to do that than for c-span to make what we call [inaudible] it s wichita weekend on booktv. with the help of our koch cable communications partners, we ll take you around kansas to visit book collections and talk with authors. the carter administration in terms of deeds as well as words probably was the most supportive administration in terms of promoting african-american entrepreneurship. in a moment, business in black and white: american presidents and black entrepreneurs in the 20th century. this is one of the earliest things we have in the store. it is a 1655 elssaier. then in about 30 minutes, a look at the rare book collection at watermark bookstore. yes. close christmas call ease clo