has that training affected the book that you've written like the sugar ray robinson book? >> okay. thank you. last questions over here and the first one how did i choose the subjects? real quick answer, new york congressman adam clayton powell was a force on the hill, went to congress in 1944 and left in 1970, and he was big on the student loan program and i would not have gone to college were it not for the student loan program, and so in the back of my mind, i just said to myself one day many years ago, i simply wanted to pay a debt back to adam clayton powell, and you know, it really was a dream. simple as that.

that's how that book was birthed. sammy davis j.r. when i was little growing up in the 60s there was not very many blacks on tv on sammy davis j.r. was a figure who was. my mother and my grandmother who raised me they would call me in the house and say, sammy davis j.r. is on tv, and so that -- he meant something to them, and so i just sort of told myself it would be interesting to write a book about sammy davis j.r some day. these are figures who happened to have a lot of scan dpal in -- scale dale in their lives and they were burdened with scandal and sugar ray robinson, i told you at the beginning about the punch that i took that i'm still

feeling, so i wrote this book to figure out where that punch came from. thank you very much.