but who i am is an amal gam of those experiences.nd for me each one was necessary to creating who i am. so when i finished the book, i realized that i loved my life. when you're in the kind of position i've been thrown into, people always ask you what you would redo. and i tell people not a thing. first of all, it would be disingenuous. how many people get to the supreme court, okay? but even though i wouldn't necessarily want to change that, there are parts of it that i wish i could have done without. but i really do appreciate that with it, it made me a better person. and so hence the title "my beloved world". >> this will relate a little bit to what you're saying. you've risen as everyone knows who's read the book and who's followed your career from very humble beginnings to one of the nation's most prestigious and visible positions. what have you held on to from your earliest days? >> my gosh, read my book. everything. just about everything. you know, i tell people that i'm the proudest american that you could ever imagine. when