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Crops like canola and waste oil from all the fast food joints in North Carolina which is to say biodiesel. He wanted to become a biodiesel entrepreneur and that continues to be his ambition today. Im going to read you a passage from middle of the book the catch is dean just that the cost of his transition from truck stop entrepreneur turned the Johnny Appleseed of biofuels. You can see that i had a tremendous amount of material covering the fastness of the country. Silicon valley is in this book. Wall street is in the book the Power Centers but so are these forgotten and left behind places like the rust belt and like the rural south, like the excerpts of tampa bay after the housing bust. I had to create a structure that could tell these stories in the manner of a big novel and the structure takes you through 30 years of ....
And informative talk. [applause] good evening. Welcome to the Commonwealth Club of california where you are in the no. I am the political reporter of kcbs radio in your moderator for the program. Find is on the internet at Commonwealth Club. Org and download the apple for information and a broadcast of past programs. You can find me on twitter. It is now my pleasure to introduce George Packer a staff writer for the new yorker and author of the new block the unwinding an inner history of the new america. Born here in the bay area and raised in palo alto a child of Silicon Valley before it was called back. Served in the peace corps then became a journalist and author written for the New York Times magazine, ....