mary frances we are ri and josh gottheimer present their book at politics in rose in washington, d.c.. >> in way you don't know it -- thank you very much for coming -- i'm mary frances, and that's josh. all i'll add is that identify been in and out -- i've been in and out of the white house in various capacities since nixon and be listened to campaigners both from the back of their heads, sitting behind, and head on. and josh and i decided to write this book, and actually we compiled the speeches and the text as written text simply because i think everybody, no matter or what party you belong to or if the you don't belong to any, agrees that one thing that barack obama can do is to deliver one heck of a campaign speech. and that words definitely helped propel him to the white house. in 2008. and what we did is to analyze some of his most important speeches that shaped his political personality and his candidacy. producing this is a joint project -- as a joint project was fun. that's one reason why we did it. ask the -- and the way we're going to do this tonight, since there are two of