A man divided. Live coverage on book tv. Okay. Good afternoon, all you readers thanks for coming back to the wisconsin book festival. This is my hometown and i am truly and honored ant and participate evan thomas. Each of us spent most of our careers working for the graham family, Washington Post, we both taught at princeton at various times and we both have written many books, but he went to harvard. [laughter] his books sell more. Hes written some wonderful books including Edward Benet Williams which any packer lover should know Edward Bennett williams, he is the guy who convinced lombardy to leave to the washington redskins. And his latest book other people im totally obsessed, Richard Nixon. We can learn a little bit more about evans and i wanted to start with his grandfather. [laughter] for those of you who dont know what that means, he will tell you shortly one of the great speakers of 20th century america. I wanted to introduce you with a quote that i saw you wrote a little piec