anand giridharadas will be signing books immediately after this presentation. his book are on sale in the barnes and noble tend which is right over there. my first fascination with india came from reading of the raj quartet in the 1970s. in the closing years of the occupation but the indians and british had strict rules for behavior and the book explored the consequences for ignoring the rules. the british left in 1947 but it has taken a long time to reverse some of the rules and effect of their presence. our offer, anand giridharadas, grew up in suburban cleveland. his parents came to the u.s. after their marriage in 1979. he attended the university of michigan at st. edmund hall. he frequently visited his extended indian family and periodically immersed their life in india. like his parents he thought leaving india was a good decision. in 2003 he returned to india to work as a consultant for mckinsey and company and later as a journalist for the new york times and their international edition the international herald tribune. his experiences are shared in his

i am honored to welcome daniel rasmussen to the anand giridharadas -- gaithersburg book festival. he has already achieved honors surpassing his age. tea won catherine nantuckhe wo prize and thomas oomf prius what would become "american uprising". it deals with the slave uprising in new orleans. the largest slave revolt in american history. yet very few people know about the events that transpired there. new orleans is shrouded in mystery and history often ignored in textbooks and idealized in cultural interaction but in the past six years alone new orleans and the mississippi river areas have been central to our most significant current events. the history of the city and surrounding areas contribute much to america as a whole. and even after its americanization remained largely european in culture. not with daniel rasmussen's book on the 1811 slave uprising we have one of the most extensive books on all little-known piece of early american history and two hundred years after the rebellion, and 150 years after the start of the civil war is even more important to take a look back a