book passage bookstore in court to madera california hosted the event. it is an hour. [applause] >> thank you for coming out on this beautiful day history lovers. we were driving up here, and i live in palo alto so my husband and i were driving up here and i thought, you know, we are the most fortunate people on the planet in all of history to live in california. it is just so gorgeous up here. palo alto and the south bay is beautiful and it changes character. the terrain, the entire environment changes character actor you go over that wonderful golden gate bridge and here we are in beautiful corda madera, so is a pleasure to be here. you can't hear me? is this better? okay. i will speak up also. i am going to start buying talking about how i happened to write this book and we have to go back into history, all of three years, if you will recall, three years ago it seemed certain that a woman who is going to be the democratic candidate for president of the united states, and then when the election. things change a lot in very quickly but there was three years ago no com