[applause] to learn more about prioleau alexander, visit his web site at www.southernfriedwriter.com. >>> the author of armed humanitarian is the rise of the nation builders. mr. hodge, defined nation-building. >> it's one of those tricky terms nobody ever really wants to own a and that's one of the reasons i chose to write about it. i'm not using it as a political science to the development sense. using the replete george tebeau bush, barack obama or david petraeus would have used it was just describing the kind of mission of armed nation building but we are involved in that sort of been described in ways as the armed social work and i am trying to describe the phenomenon to the reader that might have this idea that when they look at the news and see what journalists call the bank and from places like iraq and afghanistan and show another picture of what goes on, as of three cups of tea side of the war which is what the military calls the non-kinetic side of things and what i wanted to get was the experience of people who were getting their hands dirty doing these kind of things, reb

prioleau alexander you can't even spell his name. how did he get in to this gig? liesman? >> last week i was in new jersey and got to. elizabeth preludin speak and as an author she was talking about to perk creative process she explained in her case it was the book came first, there was a book that wanted to come out. do you feel that way in your writing process that there is a book that wants to come out of your do you struggle to make the book come out of you? >> that's a great question. you are all asking wonderful questions. being a writer is an awful affliction i wouldn't wish on anybody, and there are ten books that our ideas i think would be fun and funny and would make everybody laugh and help them see the bright side of life or the brighter side of life. so yes, it is very much the writers that persevere and making it into this business of publishing its because they can't not right. sad thing is i bet there are 500 riders out there every bit as brilliant as karnack mccarthy and they are not discovered yet and they may never be discovered. and what the right becau