story about obama and coming to, going from a juvenile infatuation to this different understanding ofwho this man is and what the role of a president is . and which i think you do a masterful job of not just there but it never feels too preachy. it never feels like alecture . it feels like you're changing over time and i think there was a period where maybe you were a little appointment at the president and maybe realize who he was and what his role was and i'd love to hear you talk about that. >> or me, when i started writing the book i thought well, how hard can a book be? the answer was very hard. and one of the hard things about it was aching about the sort of overall arc as a speechwriter. i was always trying to make sure people only focused on one thing, a speech have to be about one thing and not five things and after i said in my first draft, my editor over there, she said well, this is pretty good but what's it about? >> i said it's about five things. >> and that was, i as i went back and rewrote it, i think to me, the book is a story about what it means to fall in love and be i

the question is, in your opinion, who did the battle -- ofwho did the better job doctrinal development, and which side came closest to developing the method that would be most successful in world war ii? dr. faulker: we love the germans. we are guilty of this at fort leavenworth, but the germans sort of have a propensity for war. we overstated. a lot of that has to do with -- and a lot of that has to do with geography, but i think we overstate that. the germans are really good at some of the tactical stuff, but when it comes to making strategy, they are a basket case, and the disasters you will see in world war ii are presaged by the disasters strategic decisions they make in world war i, and i think we also overemphasized the german tactical acumen. what they do have is an official army system for capturing honestly and openly the mistakes made trying to systematically put systems in place, but at the same time, the allies know the advantages they have and are playing them as best they can and a lot of the storm trooper tactics you see are also being done by the british and french on