. >> why we listen to what they say the cover of the book has a cao fromom senator bob kerrey on the cover and remind folks why he ended up on the cover of your book. >> bob kerrey as a senator from nebraska who actually lost his foot in the vietnam war and he was kind of ae presidential candidate and head kind of the scandal about a particular episode during the war which is still unclear exactly what happened but it was not good enough that cost him his bid there but he was always nice to me and an artist and he was actually the boyfriend of my neighbormy when i lived in the west village back when you could live in the west village as a single barely working writer and you could live in the west village and she lived across the hall from me and she should he was her boyfriend so i got to hang out with him and he would do a blurb from the book had he did a really funny one. his whole blurb d originally was read this or else which is like perfect for the book that called coercion, get it? this or else in what ended up on the cover is an important book with clear warning to americans