Because people need to hear what you have to say. I take a lot of encouragement. I for years have been influenced, decades by an essay written by Bayard Rosman called from protest to politics and i hear in what you are saying that beginning of what might be a politics in egypt which means organization which means discussion, which means building from the ground up and finding ways of learning how to resolve differences. Thats how power gets shifted so thank you very much. Thank you cspan for being here. Books will be signed. Just line up over here and watch cspan on windows will appear and you can hear it again and i invite others to watch with you. Thank you all for coming. Thank you so much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] next encore booknotes. From 1997 thomas west discusses his book on the teaching of history particularly with regard for how the Founding Fathers are portrayed today. This is about an hour. Cspan professor thomas g. West, in your book in the afterword, you writ
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