brand new book off of yale university press, the statue of liberty, a transatlantic journey but edward warnson, and just to note before we get started we are being taped by c-span this evening, so when we get to questions at the end, we will want to entertain those by mike so that way you're all heard, and i'll call on you at that point. ed baronson is a professor of history and director of the institute of french studies at nyu. in addition to the book we're discussing tonight, we's the author or editor of five other books in the field of european history. he's currently writing a history of modern europe for oxford university press, and in 1999 he received the american historical association's distinguished teaching award. and we're particularly lucky to be one of the very first sites to discuss his new book, and this is an exciting book that we've been looking forward to here at the museum for over a year now. we've been working with ed and a team of scholar advisors to look at the life and work of the poet emma lazarus who composed the famous poem "the new colossus that graces the statue o