from lewis and clark's exploration of the american west to civil engineer thomas mcdonald's creation of the interstate highway system. this is about an hour. >> well, thank you very much. first of all, the apologies. a slightly weird to be writing a book called the menu united states during its time when given that reason struggles and washington is seems more disunited and it has been prolonged a long time. icons, a very short trip of music at the end. i just hope that there will be no telephones during his presentation. otherwise i will feel like it was altered the -- had to answer actually addressing a huge political concept. so let's hope that does not happen. what i want to try and do tonight is to tell you a bit more of the background of this book which is a big sort of plum pudding of an affair. once i tell you how it all come into being, plums from the putting. the background, quite a complex story. you might be able to tell english. i fell in love with this country quite literally when i first arrived here in 1962. hitchhiking. i basically met at a science fair in london, th

from lewis and clark's exploration of the american west to civil engineer thomas mcdonald's creation of the interstate highway system. this is about an hour.