. >> thank you, maura. that was lovely. [applause] >> i'm going to take my spot over there. >> and for more information visit the author's website, macgriswold.com. >> i'm very pleased to present to this audience my new book, portraits of five remarkable wives. as it was said about writing letters, it's more difficult to write a short been a long one. my book is short, and it attempts to capture sights, sounds, and smells of the great era of 1937-1938, through the eyes of five women caught up in extraordinary circumstances. i wish to thank collectively my friends and colleagues at the hoover institution, the hoover institution library and archives, the hoover press, without which this book could not have been written. so there's to many here to thank them individually so i would like to thank you collectively. now, to the book itself, i said this before but it's a good way to introduce the topic. sal and is purported to have said that death of one person is a tragedy. the death of a million is a statistic. those of us who s