co-authored with matthew spieler. eleanor clift has appeared at politics and prose for all of her previous books, some written with her late husband, tom. eleanor, you are a friend of independent bookstores, and especially politics and prose. many of us were riveted by your two weeks of life, memoir of life, death, memory, fanatical politics. your insights on how we deal with death and failed to deal with death stay with us who read you to this day. nearly 20 years ago, eleanor and tom joined carla and me and 20 or so others when carla s first political, first politics and prose trip. it was a literary political trip to what were some of the former communist countries. we met with offers from poland, the czech republic, hungary, and from the communist party of germany. we went to koch which arch which i swish. what eleanor at a author have accomplished in selecting a president is to make the election system understandable by breaking it into manageable parts, getting as