and on october 16th, 2011, i will celebrate the 100th birthday of my mother, berma hill. [applause] now, she is not alive to celebrate with me. nevertheless i will celebrate. the place with long snowy winters, that would be here, is not likely but she contemplated 35 years ago when she sent me off with two sets of luggage and i tell that story. but it is my home and each day i honor her by looking at to her dream that i would find a more just america that the one she grew up in and that as she did, i believe that america better than how i found. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. you are listening to cambridge for them as we continue the discussion of making a home in america, finding opportunity in a jeep in overcoming the racial gender and economic barriers of our society with anita hill. i want to open up appear to sort of sink through what professor hill couldn't get to. it's a marvelous book, and the first thing i've wanted to give you an opportunity to talk more specifically about how and why you settle on the very interesting hybrid format that you settled on as t