ladies and gentlemen, mary roach. >> jeff greenwald. [applause] >> thank thank you, mary. thankthank you, jeff. give us a second to redo the stage. if you want to purchase books, register is behind you. thank you, everybody.

. >> jeff greenwald. [applause] >> thank thank you, mary. thankthank you, jeff. give us a second to redo the stage. if you want to purchase books, register is behind you. thank you, everybody. [inaudible] [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations]. >> everyone can hear us? >> came back -- >> everyone can hear us? we'll keep at it until you can, i promise. >> i saw it coming. >> everyone here? everyone ready? >> just got so hard to get things -- >> everyone have a chair, mostly? >> i never felt like i needed to -- >> i don't think it is on. do we have microphones. sound? >> all right. do we have seats? sound good? all right. welcome, everyone. i'm chris good win with the mississippi department of archives and history. we'll begin with the final panel in the old supreme court chamber. thank the state legislature for letting us use once again this beautiful state capitol for this book festival. and we thank tag art, rimes and graham the panel for this presidential year. here to say a few things about that panel, andy taggart, jerry nash, festival organizer