event. welcome, welcome to the september meeting of the lincoln group of the district of columbia. i am david jay kent, president of the lincoln group of the district of columbia. this is kind of a special night because, not only as our first meeting since june, but we also have zoom, we have video being recorded. and this is my official book launch for my new book, lincoln: the fire of genius he. so [applause] thank you. i know a lot of people but books and they came, and i appreciate that. i m going to give a talk tonight about lincoln: the fire of genius. and basically look at, well, let me look at the subtitle. i think that really describes the book. it s how abraham lincoln s commitment to science and technology helped modernize america. that is what i m going to talk about tonight. just to give you a little background, i m going to talk about, i guess, i ll start with the book is really kind of you can piece it out to three different sections. the first days, what