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People here who will at least remember the place if not agree with me, and so its always nice to be back with old friends. I really date myself here, i even attended an advanced placement class at the old West High School, which was right down here and you have to be really old to remember when West High School was here. People have asked me a lot, why did you write this book . Its so long ago and so obscure. And i usually say because its just a great story. What happened, the events themselves are so amazing. And as a writer, as a fiction writer i would never dare to make them up the kind of ...

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...