it s about an hour. [applause] well, thanks so much for all of you for being here tonight. thanks to our gracious hosts, changing hands, independent bookstores like these are a treasure and we should support them whenever we can. that s why no one is getting out of here until every copy over there is sold. [laughter] so my book is founding rivals: james madison versus james monroe, the bill of rights and the election that saved the nation those who saw the lead guitar of kiss, i regret to inform you that was last night. [laughter] you know, as important as this project has become to my life, i can scarcely remember the first time i learned about this historic congressional race between two future presidents in 1789. but what i do remember is reading about it in a book and it was treated with the typical one or two sentences that you would see about this congressional race and i thought to myself, way to bury the lead. all of a sudden we re in between a race between tw