to answer this question and more edgars balleisen is here to share his new book "fraud" an american history from barnam to madoff. the associate professor of history and senior fellow at the kenan institute for ethics at duke university documents the relationship between deregulation and the rise of fraud. we are going to introduce tonight enzi state history chair department chair david who will further introduce our guests and i was turned over to him at this moment. >> thank you very much. welcome everybody. as was said i am head of the history department and first of all i want to thank ed for asking me to moderate this panel. i'm really looking forward to it. ed has our advantage it does to you. he is a member of the faculty. he is also duke's vice provost for disciplinary study where he is reading a major project funded by the national endowment for the manatees and exploring new careers humanities and ph.d.s and i have great interest in that because i want to explore career opportunities. kevin anderson who is currently the senior deputy attorney general of the state of north carolina