This is 1965. He is 41 years old and he has yet to win a race but he had a sense of destiny, word he doesnt really like but it was a sense that he was meant to do great things. If good evening. I want to welcome you all here for a very special evening and also welcoming booktv here. A few people here that dont know david, i will give you a background. A b. A. From brandeis in that phase from nyu and he has been an astrologer and a screenwriter. He is a new york native. This is his first book, the publication date, you know me better than that. Please join me in welcoming david jaheer. [applause] thanks everybody for coming. I want to talk about the setting for this book and i want to talk about the story but i also want to make the point this period is varied distant and its going to sound like a time where society was very socialist and didnt sound like a period was very long ago. But in fact in 1983 the university of chicago showed in a poll that 27 of americans believed they were in