ignorant, a lot of times there is a sense they don t care much about the rest of america. and you can come at it from either side of the political divide which is exactly what i want to see happening because i don t think this book is a partisan book in that sense. i think it speaks for everybody. what is your intent? having just written the only book of my life and having it be the most physically challenging, painful, psychologically torturous experience i ve ever had i can only imagine you must have had a very specific i had a very good reason i wanted to write the book i wrote. i presume to publish something like this you have a goal. i ve been watching this for a long time. i live in a small town in rural maryland and also worked in the washington elite group and i can see these the two worlds don t interact. and you can see that not primarily economically. i m not denying the economic inequality. i am saying there are cultural separations that are alien to the american tr