mr. brookhiser his successor only later to change his mind. the manhattan institute sponsored this event and a harvard club in new york city posted. it is 50 minutes. >> this is the first and i have given a book talk braff of the people in the room are in the index. [laughter] you all looked at the index. [laughter] yes you did. you really did. let me begin at the beginning. i met and bill buckley by writing for him. i grew up around new york in suburb of rochester and midsize upstate city with my parents and my older brother bob. in the fall of 1969 i was a freshman at the local public high school. i did not know anybody who went to a private one. my brother was a junior at yale. every weekend of the school year since he went away at college i rode him on a small black middle typewriter babylon to mom and better rehearsing the events of the week. basketball games, school plays, little tryouts, disasters and items apologized and dramatize. one week the news barged into the home theater the opponents to the war called for a nationwide moratoriu