on the trip where i met stan milam, stan told know find a video of a speech then juror barack obama gave in the assembly plant in february of 2008 when he was campaigning to try to win the wisconsin primary. and this was a very big, important economic speech in his campaign in which he lays out his agent, and in that speech he says two things when i discovered the speech on my laptop in my own hoves as home, just gave me goose bumps. he said, first of all, basically, if the country elected him in and followed his economic prescription, this plant will be here for another hundred years. the other thing he said was the promise of janesville is a promise of america. and i thought, if i'm going write about this i want to have that sentence in whatever i write. so that appealed to me. janesville also has interesting politics and i should say there are a lot of other moments in u.s. history in which janesville figured directly. so, in the late 1930s there was a very important moment in u.s. labor history called the general motors sitdown strike, and janesville is one of the side of the the str