Just a bit of housekeeping. Please silence all of your cell phones. We do not want them to ring while david king is talking. Also, cspan is filming us. So at the questionandanswer portion, if you would go to the mike on this side so you can be heard. Before thevent, signing, if you would please take your chairs and lean them against something solid, to help us make the store orderly looking again. Ok. At the time where there is a growing sense of unease among sensible people because of the rise of fascism, this net it is now important for us to look toward the past and analyze the conditions that made fascism possible. Naturally, we turn to our historians to guide us through the murky realm of the past. King,ch historian, david is here with us today, a scholar who earned his masters degree , and a professor who once taught european history at the university of kentucky. A New York Times bestselling writer, he has written several acclaimed books of history. He is here with us today to r