Its a little over an hour. [applause] the thank you very much. A wonderful crowd. Thank you to regnery books, a real asset to our community here. With all these programs. I am glad to see my kids in the audience, who asked me to mention their names. Henry, alice, abby, claire and my wife karen is here and my mother doris and many friends but also the basis as well. Thank you all for coming out. I appreciate your time and interest. In rise to greatness i tell the story of the most eventful and perilous time in american history, 1862. As much as possible i tell it through the eyes of the man who guided the nation through the fire, Abraham Lincoln. I dont want to spoil the book for you, so let me just say that the year began with the American Republic in grave danger. The union army was struggling to regrow virtually overnight from a few thousand men scattered across the continent, to more than half a billion. The inexperienced officers, the command of these were all volunteers was stymie