it is a biography of sylvia sanchez, and in reading the book i felt that her biography has a special relevance, especially to women in this country. briefly just to say that her life shows that it is possible for women to become leaders in a struggle to guarantee that everyone has top-quality medical care as well as education as well as an attempt to eliminate poverty. so i wonder if you could just give the few words about why you decided to write the introduction to this book. >> i would be happy to. she was really the equal partner with fidel castro in the cuban revolution, but nobody in this country hardly has heard of her. and so i get a lot of manuscripts' of people asking me to, you know, read them, right introductions, and i picked this one up. i started reading. it's about 400 pages long. it is so astonishing, the life of this woman who made the revolution with castro, you know, the people that many of you in this audience are somewhat familiar with. she was a society young woman. her father was a doctor, and she -- i think it was because he was a doctor she got to see some o