[applause] thank you, first, to left bank for having me. Its, obviously, a great bookstore, and i spent a lot of time at left bank when i lived here, so thank you very much for hosting this event. I also want to just thank, first and foremost, my colleagues from the post dispatch who are here and who are my friends and have supported me for a long time when i wrote this book, for the six years that i wrote in this book and for the last two weeks since its publication. Appropriately, because theyre journalists, theyre all in the back drinking [laughter] thank you, guys. And thank you, also, to the sort of celebrity in the audience. This is a book about henry ger reck key and his son, colonel hank gerecke came up to be here tonight. Hes in the front, and i hope hes going to say a few words in a little bit. [applause] hank was my collaborator in every way on this book. I spent a lot of time at his kitchen table, he and his wife millie, learning about his father and his mother and their up
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