that may never have before been encountered and with that i welcome miss anna faray. to turn on the screen just do it. hi everyone. thanks for coming out today. good to see you all. it's a pleasure to be here presenting this book on cuba in miami and not only in miami, but at the miami book fair, i'm very happy to be here. so i'm gonna talk today about the book and let you know a little bit about the process and what some of my ideas were and then we'll we'll stop for question and answers. i'm moderating myself some i'll try to keep keep myself to time. so i want to just begin by telling you that the book cuba and american history is simply put a history of cuba. it's a history of cuba from before the arrival of christopher columbus to the present. but the book is not a textbook. it's not a textbook built around high political history or abstract structural analysis. it's not an academic monograph for specialists. and it is well, despite the fact that i am in the book and that i draw on my own personal experiences in my personal relationship with the island of cuba. t