it's a pleasure to introduce the author of american made, nick taylor. [applause] thank you for coming to barnes and noble tonight. i see my friends in the audience. thank you for coming out. you know the wpa the new deal is 75-years-old as of yesterday, march 4, 1933 is one franklin roosevelt was inaugurated president of the united states. all that time, yet we have today program in the wpa that suddenly seems fresh and new because once again we are talking about infrastructure, the need for economic stimulus, and that is the kind of thing the wpa did. i'm going to talk about all that and read a little bit. so let me first read from a prolonged a little bit but will give you the framework in which the wpa came to exist. the human toll of the great depression is the 1930's is almost impossible for us to fathom today. when franklin roosevelt took office in 1933 as many as 15 million people, workers in the united states had no jobs, had no jobs and no hopes of finding one's. the desolation knew no boundaries. the skilled and unskilled still on the bread li