it is a great pleasure to welcome hendrik hertzberg back here tonight. [applause] thank you, that was lovely. and thank you all for turning out. this is touching and lovely to see so many lovely people here. thank you. i am here because of "obamanos." also, by the way because of another sort of novelty item, "one million," which is a book that contains 1 million dots that i first published in 1970, a couple of additions. this is a brand new addition just out. carla has given a summary of the book i was going to give. [laughter] which actually is good because i want to keep this short end to the part we talk together and to answer questions or make statements and i respond to them and in my experience that's always the best part of this kind of thing. originally i was thinking about what i would say tonight i was going to wax nostalgic about the exploration and the terror of the campaign and the of joy of election white and the inauguration and then follow up with a discussion of how obama has collided with reality and how we have all come down from the e

[applause] >> for more information on hendrik hertzberg, visit new yorker.com. heading into the final weekend of 2009 burqa to spend the next hour asking you about your favorite nonfiction books of 2009. phone lines are open i have to get a lot of your comments and calls. (202)737-0001 for republicans. democrats its (202)737-0002. independent 202-0205. we do this in conjunction with otb which has been in business since september of 1996, the 11 years, excuse me september of 1998. eleven years of booktv, 48 hours of otb television, nonfiction by programming every weekend on c-span 2. and this weekend as well. during the hour will also bring you some of the events we've covered in the past year. some of the books of the year including author david finkel co-authored the good soldiers. here's a look at some of the things he had to say during that and will get back to your calls. >> another soldier, one of his best time yet written in the journal he kept an eye plus all hopes. i feel the end is near for me dealing very near. another hadn't yet gotten angry enough to