Brian david mccullough, your from 1989,peeches when did you get the idea to do this. Last summer. The summer of 2016. I was not discouraged, but distressed by the tone of the Political Campaign and the animosity and nastiness of some of it. I thought, ive got to do something to help bring some balance back and remind people of who we are and how we got to be where we are, and what we stand for. I thought, ive been speaking up and down the land for 40 years or more. Maybe some of those speeches, if we dusted them off and put them together, not as an anthology, but speeches where id addressed ideas or subjects that pertain to reminding us about who we are and what our values have been down the years. And my daughter, who has been arranging all my speaking dates all these years, wanted very much to help with it. She had whatever records we had. Many of those speeches, there was no record of what i said. But we had enough that there were manuscripts of it. I never wanted to give a commence