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it s about 40 minutes. good afternoon, everyone. thank you so much for being here today. my name is candice. i work with some of the events here in the store, and on behalf of the owners and the rest of the staff, i want to welcome you to politics and prose. i just have a couple of logistics to go over. if you wouldn t mind taking out your cell phones and making sure that they are on silent. we are recording this event this afternoon, and we also have c-span here with us today, so not having any interruptions would be great. we re going to have about an hour long presentation here with half the time given to our author s presentation and the other half given to your questions. we have one microphone on the side here. if you wouldn t mind using that for your question, we can pick it up on the recording and everyone will be able to hear you. and then finally, we typically ask that you fold up your chairs at the end of an event before getting in the signing line. if you ....
Raffles going on. At your table youve been given a note card that we would like you to write down a question for our panel this afternoon. If you have a question for them. And what i will do, i will take out the most objectionable ones. And then well proceed from there. But so if you find that and if youve got a question, then write it down and well ask our wonderful speakers today. Weve also, at the break were going to bring in my staff and were going to have a chance to acknowledge them. And then our Panel Discussion is after lunch at 1 00. So that will be the end of our day. I really like our speakers presentation title today, mission impossible, rethinking george b. Mcclel an. After this conference i think its more impossibler to do that. But dr. George rable, professor at the university of alabama where he held the care of southern history. He is the author of of a book that won the 2003 lincoln prize and was the choice out ....