john sedgwick if a journalist, novelist, memoryist and biographer. he has 13 books, including his account of a duel between hamilton and burr. and in addition to his books we has wherein for publications like "news week," "vanity fair" and "atlantic." downme in welcoming john sedgwick. maas applause. >> how about that. nice to see you all. i haven't been to georgia since i was here researching my book, and now i've come back and have book in hand and i feel leak the whole mission is complete. it's nice to see you out there. i was also quite overjoyed to see the reception of the atlanta journal constitution in my book. don't know how many people saw that but i hope everyone did, who is quite a nice review. it's a thrill to be here. it's such an interesting thing. when you're a writer, i live in brooklyn, i'm holed up in my house for, like, years, it seems like, going through documents all by myself, and then suddenly the book is out and i have to talk to people and get out into the world and make a reasonable presentation of myself, and i feel sort of

president and ceo of the atlanta history center and welcome to tonight's lecture feet fuehring john sedgwick. please be sure to turn awe all the noise-making items as we have c-span here and donan