. >> well, thank you, jerald, for that compliment. journalists do what they do, you know. i'm one of them. i know what they do. in the right circumstances i do it myself. but you also -- and i found this -- when writing about people of the past, i think i found this most strongly with the adamses, and if i have a quarrel with some of the john adams revival, which is just a huge thing, its that it sugar coats him. it doesn't do him any favors. john adams was a complex complicated man, and to make him a kind of plaster image, it's sort of doing what i was doing at 15, looking for an idol. the posthumous equivalent of that. and you shouldn't try to do that. of course, there will be many more books. when samuel johnson died there was a rash of books. we remember boswell, who wrote the great book, and that leased, but everybody wanted to get out there and they wanted to get throughout because they knew that ha agreed man at left their midst and they all had a take on him, and they wanted to get it down. so, two books, there will be ten by this time next year. do we have time fo