thank you [applause] i am the national security editor of "usa today" and also a longtime friend of len colodny and have worked with him since i met him almost 20 years ago when i worked in tampa florida which is where len lives now. have been involved talking with him for a long time i am proud to see this book come out and i think we will have a lively and interesting discussion because there is so much in this book i found new and i think you will as well.

i appreciate everybody coming out here to listen to tom schachtman and len colodny talkedut their boat, "the forty years war." we will have-- be around for awhile but you have any questions after we are done. thank you very much. removal of theis the co-auth president, published in 1991. for more information visit tom schachtman.com. >> we are frostburg state university speaking with robert moore the third about this book, they always said that would merit a white girl coming to grips with race in america. to start off with white did, who actually said that you would always marry a white girl and why did they say that? >> i think that was more of an internal feeling on my part. i grew up in i think it's very fascinating time period in the suburbs of philadelphia to 1960's. we were one of the few african-american families, perhaps the only african-american family to ride the wave of millions of whites who left urban america at that time to go to the suburbs for couth the same time many african-americans were coming out of rural america and going to the cities, so i felt very unique. i f