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How many from outside of washington . How many had never been to the book festival before . How many have been to all 19 of them . Wow. Okay. Were going to have a very interesting conversation today with one of the countries leading i was a intellectuals and columnists and tv commentators and authors. His new book is the Second Mountain. How many people have read this book at . Come people are going to read this after its over . , okay. How many people are going to get autographed copy from david brooks today. Okay. So david, thanks for doing this. Before we go into this book, the Second Mountain which ive read and think its a very good book. I like to go through about your background. You grew up in new york . The lower side of new york. My parents were somewhat leftwing. So thel story tell about my childhood is when i was identically, this is, this is in the late 60s,s where hippies would go just to be. One of the things they did was they would set a garbage can on fire and they thre
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