I am the director of Reading Services welcome to the Public Library thank you for your patience and flexibility for setting land speed records to get david branch here the circumstances brought out of everybodys control the plane was delayed you can insert your own airline joke here but tonight he will talk about his book a story of historical crime of greed and fear and racial cleansing part political history and in the book will be conversation long after he catches the next playing. It is easy to read the book because he tells the story in a detailed rich and suspenseful way. It is hard to read this book because it is true and devastating and maddening. But he is a magnificent storyteller for the New York Times magazine or atlantic or Washington Post wall street journals previous awardwinning books and if you cannot take their word than the Supreme Court stuff on justice he signed that in one of his opinions. David graham. [applause] two my first book was called velocity about a tri
Everybodys control the plane was delayed you can insert your own airline joke here but tonight he will talk about his book a story of historical crime of greed and fear and racial cleansing part political history and in the book will be conversation long after he catches the next playing. It is easy to read the book because he tells the story in a detailed rich and suspenseful way. It is hard to read this book because it is true and devastating and maddening. But he is a magnificent storyteller for the New York Times magazine or atlantic or Washington Post wall street journals previous awardwinning books and if you cannot take their word than the Supreme Court stuff on justice he signed that in one of his opinions. David graham. [applause] two my first book was called velocity about a trip to the amazon i tried to find that ancient city after leaving 9 00 oclock this morning to get to kansas it would have been easier to track through the jungle but i did comment it is great to be here.