Country. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good evening. I am the owner of politics ambroses with my wife on behalf of the entire staff thank you for coming and braving the cold and the ice. Just a few notes. Knowledge is the big time to turn off your cell phones during the talk. When we get to the q a please step up to the microphone because we are recording the event tonight for our purposes and is the spee into booktv is here. And the staff would appreciate it if you could fold up the chairs where you were seated to leave them against something solid lead somewhere. Now for the feature presentation it makes our job here a little easier when on the day and the author is due to appear the Washington Post style section decides to run a big favorable feature about the person and the new book and that is what happened today for congressman steve israel. If you have not read the piece yet let me summarize. You can read the whole thing. [laughter] with his first attempt a
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[applause] so, it is such a pleasure to be a politics and prose, driving in depended more less an oxymoron in these times, but here we are coming and it is happening so it is such a tree. i am going to start by taking it through a journey that i have taken into the 18th century. people say i sort of entered the 18th century about 15 airs 16 years ago at the age of 50 and people say in the revolutionary community that once you enter the 18th century you pretty much never fully return. much to my wife s sure grann that has happened to me too. i started out by investigating common people. i was working on curriculum for schools and wanted to bring to the floor the contributions and real-life experiences of common people during the revolutionary era and in the under reporting people come up for farmers, fighting men and boys, women, african-americans and native americans and i compiled the great wealth of scholarly literature into a form that i think was accessible to the gener