i came under the influence of edwin morgan and he set me on my course.entors there worked a lot with him and i asked him if i could write my dissertation on thomas jefferson. he said, no, you are not old enough to write a biography. so, i did try to do that for another 25 years. that is where i caught it. i must have had some kind of influence there. i have stuck with the lady because i've written biographies , washington, adams, jefferson, i sometimes get identified as a presidential historian. i don't think of myself as a presidential historian. i've written about the first three presidents. at any rate, ed morgan let me write the way i wanted to. i think teaching at a liberal arts college allowed me to aim at a general audience rather than a group of professional historians. >> there you go. >> lets go through some of the key points on your book. asking questions for another 20 minutes or so. then about 10 minutes or so where you can have your question submitted. submitted them in the chat room and i will read them subsequently when we get to that sec