or john -- john o'hara, make yourself do things you don't want to do. and i do live in the woods in maine, and one thing that i didn't really want to do was -- come -- for me, to come out with this book when it came out. so, when the time came for me that go on the road and do some of the promoting of the book and talking about the book, i went back to some of those letters and read them and it said, do things you don't want to do, do the right thing. make yourself ... c-span: why didn't you want to do it this time? >> guest: i just didn't. i'm -- i'm not really a public person. i never have been. it wasn't -- a lot of times i think people are so excited for the book to come out that they can go out and talk about it. and i was thrilled that the book was out, but i wasn't -- wasn't on the promoting side of it. c-span: did you have to, as a part of your deal with doubleday, did you have to do so many book appearances? >> guest: i don't know. i had to do some. i didn't get to that point. i just took myself in hand and said, ok, you're going to do it. c-sp

please welcome john o'hara. intended to fundamentally transform the united states of america. world leaders, newspaper headlines were declaring the death of capitalism. our free market system that has pulled more people out of poverty than any system ever. this radical agenda was not met without resistance. people began to organize. even social networking tools like to order and facebook and old fashioned tools like websites and e-mail. [laughter] people organized tea party protest across the country. from february to the enormously successful 9/12 marks and washington were dozens of conservative activists can that and made their voices heard. the really exciting thing about this is that it is not about labels. is that people are opening their eyes, not only paying attention to politics and the political process and what our leaders are doing but they are dusting off the principles that many people in this room have been fighting for for a lifetime and realizing that less government, limited government, individu