he's an award-winning journalist and author and broadcaster so please welcome david baren. [applause] >> thank you for coming out on this rainy night. i have been on a book tour now for over a month and i am just thrilled to be here at tattered cover. this is a row highlight and active in colorado in boulder and as you all know this is a real gem in colorado, tattered cover bookstore so i'm thrilled to be here. i will talk about an eclipse in history but as evelyn said and i assume you all know there's no eclipse coming up in our near future. august 21, for the first time in 99 years a total solar eclipse will cross the country coast-to-coast. this is a big deal. how many of you have plans to go and see the total eclipse? hopefully by the end of this evening you will all have plans. of those who have been planning how many of you have been planning to see this for at least a month? eight-year? a decade? how many years have you been looking forward to it? >> about six. >> six years, not six decades. not that this is a competition but i've i have been planning for this eclips

i'm with tattered cover and i'm so glad to welcome you this evening and we are excited to welcome david baren the author of "american eclipse" which is why you are sitting here. this is a really interesting book where the wild west meets the stars essentially and i was reading about it and about the time and eclipse and i thought