and our author who's speaking is william hoglin. he's written multiple books including autumn of the black snake, declaration, the history of the rebellion. he's a contributor to a recent publications on hamilton. he's also penned many essays and articles that you can read in places like the atlantic monthly, salone, "the new york times," boston are review, huffington post but nup more important than our own financial magazine history. so it should be no surprise that the topic of william's next book is alexander hamilton. it's my pleasure to introduce him, william hoglin. [ applause ] >> thanks a lot. i know the acoustics in here boom a little bit. can anyone hear me? okay, thank you. that's good to know. i think some of you know that maybe it's a little bit -- i'm a little bit of a fish out of water here. i would like to point out that the museum of american finance has had me speak, this is the third time. in fact, my very first ever talk on alexander hamilton and other related issues was sponsored by the museum. for my very firs