and i want to thank bernadine for putting it together and for being one of the inspirations for why i this book. it was bernadine the mention fred hampton spoke at northwestern university law school almost exactly 40 years ago to the day. and the person who introduced him was a young law student by the name of flint taylor who is sitting in the front row. [applause] and apparently, i wasn't there but flint stammered through an introduction of fred, selwyn fred got uppy jadick flynn then said well flint, you had better get it together but he also knew that fled had get them out on appeal bun nsc no fuentes got it together. [laughter] i don't want to spend the rest of the night talking about his accomplishments but anyway another person who was very much touched and moved by fred hampton. if you had told me a few years ago that i would be standing here talking about a book that i had written not to mention a personal narrative, i really would not have believed you. i was a lawyer. i didn't even particularly love writing. somebody i saw from years ago recently in seattle said, but you di

so, i said as bernadine said, we're very grateful that you came out.we are hoping that you will continue whatever struggles that you are involved in and continue them in the spirit of friend. continue them knowing that they can kill the revolutionary, but they cannot kill the revolution. thank you very much. [applause] >> there some refreshments to appear. thank you also very much. and jeff will be signing books. you can talk to him and to the panel. sound [applause] richard wolffe has a book called "renegade: the making of a president." you want to tell us about your book following the president connected us in a campaign? >> i was one of the few there from the very beginning to the very end. the book came about at the candidate suggestion. he thought it would be a great idea for me to read about. i thought it would be a stupid idea until i figured out there was something about a story that was worth telling and the way that they are something obscured and may be hidden and reserved about him. and that's how i approach the book, not the story of the c

barack went to a fundraiser for his state senate race at the home of bill ayers and bernadine who wereaders of the revolutionary weather underground. that's true. and he was married under the blessing of reverend wright. he was in that church for 20 years. but if you look carefully at what he said in his famous speech about, particularly reverend wright and the subject of race, it's quite explanatory. the explanation is this,=ñ that because barack came later, he was a kid growing up in the '60s, he didn't have to go through or chose not to or was not forced to goçó through the sort of scoring and embittering experience is that a bill in her or a reverend wright would have gone through. they were given voice to the anger of the '60s out of their experience of betrayals and crises in the '60s. and he was only five, right? i have a picture of him that i think i will release, but to me people would take it seriously. it's a photo of barack at age five, 1968, he's in the ocean in hawaii. you can tell it's him, just a little him. it's just the same person, just a little him. and his fist is