. >> so it was unpredictable putsch mother you would wendy welch at a little unpredictable. >> in the nature of mother is nothing definite can be fed. >> [inaudible] >> so you go to college and find it's very different from that of your classmates. so that is one obstacle. nus and sociathen you have somel obstacles. even though in retrospect it is like a little transition. >> it seems like a shocking party school is less david cÔte more or less. like men and women live in different buildings and there's a curfew that is 12:00 at night and then you can only be in the living room. you have to go to the bathroom in an apartment across the street when in 01. it is serious but i felt that it was the most terrifying. people were wearing tank tops and drinking mountain dew and a vicodin to do with it. i thought i was surrounded by gentiles and that is the word i used. >> there's a lot of focus on the academic obstacles to overcome the learning about all these things that were not the way you have been taught. there's also the financial obstacles. it sounds like you were really broke a lot of

and we have wendy welch the author of "fault or fly the story of foster care and adoption in appalachia." she's also the author and editor of three previous books including the bookstore of big stone gap and she runs a bookstore in southwest virginia. i want to see the thought at the start of the event to thinking about some of the topics. in his essay, james baldwin has some thoughts about how the stories of device or comfort ahead of the greater understanding and that can weaken our ability to deal with the world as it is in ourselves as we are. he concludes with a fought but i try to bear in mind when encountering the works of history and what they have reached back over hundreds of years or what we are doing with contemporary issues. all of these books give us history often by the difficult work. to get started, i'd like to ask everyone to share the stories for these three books. when and how do the concerns and the ideas of these books for us to take shape, and if we could start with elizabeth and then go to steven and then go to wendy. >> i moved to texas with my partner as the 20

. >> if i could just add i can't remember, but there's a book by wendy welch at j. rummel. >> thank you. the number we generally use doesn't involve the border. if you add into that coming to get a much bigger number, and of course all sorts of ideologies centralized governments have killed all sorts of people in the war and we are not generally supportive of the authoritarians killing people. >> you and everybody else in the room are welcome here where we have scholars criticizing u.s. adventurism abroad for just the thing to do with the free-market model. next question. the gentleman over there please. >> you didn't mention israel. >> can you speak at the little that please. >> you didn't mention is that just an aberration in your thought process tax >> it's a successful socialist enclave? >> the private socialist experiments on the small scale have had some limited and what has been the most successful although they have not been greatly successful. one of the things mentioned that is critical is large-scale production the scale is difficult to imagine. most of u