. >> and now on booktv, pauline maier was the recipient of the 2011 paolucci/bagehot book award. during the award award ceremony, professor baer spoke about her book, try again for about an hour. -- her book, "ratification," for about an hour. to make my name is markedly. i'm the chief economic officer at isi and is my privilege to introduce our speaker and the recipient of the 2011 paolucci/bagehot book award, professor pauline maier. she is the professor of american history at mit where she has taught for more than 30 years. she received her ph.d from harvard university in 1968, and has also taught at the university of massachusetts and the university of wisconsin. in addition to being a greatly acclaimed scholar, she is also a devoted teacher of generations of undergraduates. regularly offering a survey course in american history taking and 65, for example. are books that focus on the power of ideas and the shaping of early america. have also recovered the human complexity of the founding experience ring important nuance to conventional understandings. in her first book, "from