Host well, martin, im very pleased to be with you to talk to you about your new book. Guest thank you. Host now, youve written a number of biographies other the course of your career, and i wanted to ask if you felt this was a different sort of project than the other ones or whether you approached it differently . What were the reasons that you decided to write this book . Guest i knew howard somewhat. We were never close friends, but i did know him. And when he died, i had the thought that i might well be the right person, because we shared a lot of of political values in common. And i always liked him very much as a human being. So i talked to the family, and the archives were all unprocessed, but they were willing to let me in to rumble around. And i did that for a couple of years. [laughter] and i think the real surprise in terms of the archives was that howard who seemed to be always a very open man had, in fact, vetted his archives quite considerably, omitting much of his corresp