Please thank the panel. [applause] been at the bookstore has the books for sale and i will be glad to site now. [inaudible conversations] [applause] thank you it is a pleasure to be here i will set the timer so i dont go over. I was last on this stage eight years ago that reminds me of a story from a fellow officer like the insect is underground then is swatted down by a critic and reappears. So let me start off by trying to give you a sense of how i came to the preposteroust5;x conclusion the world needs another book on the American Revolution. This book is about a prospective that was new to me when i started and i hope this is new to you but at the same time a perspective that is forgotten. 10 years ago or before i appeared and started to read more deeply into the philosophical ideas of americas founders and the lesserknown ones. The short story is that i was incredibly surprised. I can matt this does a historian of philosophy and early modern philosophy f up the interesting things