former director of the graduate program in public policy and international affairs at williams paterson university. the co-author of six books and numerous book chapters and an encyclopedia entry on american politics and public policy, globalization, social movements and religion. she cochairs the seminar on full employment social welfare equity in the seminar on popular struggle and serves on the board as a national jobs for all coalitions. please join me in welcoming shelia collins and trudy schaffner goldberg to the roosevelt book festival. [applause] >> thank you very much. sheila and i are honored to be here in a place where the new deal is born. and going to begin by quoting from roosevelt who wrote unfortunately a catastrophe seems to have been necessary to focus people's attention on the ideals and government and on its relationship to its citizens. of course it's more unfortunate if that doesn't happen. but the crisis of 2008 seems to us to be a similar kind of opportunity. sheila and i hope that like many others we will be able to take stock and correct some of the things that maybe had