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William thornton, designed the u. S. Capitol. This is just over 50 minutes. [applause] thank you. For that nice introduction and thank you to majors and quinn hosting this event. I suggested this to eat than back in the winter, there was never anything less than enthusiastic about having me. This was always my destination when i came to a minneapolis bookstore. I am glad i landed here. I want to tell you a little bit about the book. I will read a little bit about the book. Its nice to be here and see some old familiar faces. You know, whenever i come back to minneapolis i have this feeling wha...

minneapolis, i have this feeling of what a special place this was. there are a few people that probably remember the place is not agree with me. so it's always nice to be back with old friends. i will really date myself here. i even attended an advanced placement class at the old west high school, which is right down here on hennepin. you have to be really old to remember when the high school was there. [laughter] you know, people have asked me a lot, they said why did you write this book so long ago and i usually say because it is just a great story. it's a story of what happens in ...

john heresy, whose book on hiroshima in 1946, he interviews some of the japanese who are there, it's a bestseller in '46. in 1994 the smithsonian can't mount an exhibit showing japanese suffering. but in '46 we're more willing to at least think about it. i'm not taking a position even on truman here, right or wrong. i'm saying that the public had a broader perspective and a more sort of, there were more cross currents in the way we saw world war ii in the '40s than we saw it in the '90s where we were very reluctant to look at a critical appraisal of the war. >> [inaudible] >> the one...

deregulation, our criticisms are -- you see the fingerprints of both parties there. there's no doubt about that. you see an awful lot of democrats who bought into the free trade ideas, and by buying into it, i mean, without the kinds of restrictions, without some oversight to make sure that it was played properly. .. >> the way that we think that things have been in the past, that is what we are talking about. not in the other believe. >> host: donald barlett and james steele of the author of this fabulous new beau, "the betrayal of the american dream." both journalists, extraordinar...