he offers an astute analysis in the middle east of which i heard him tell diane ramis morning, i've never seen it worse. his review is called the state of personal account, a list of alarming overview of where the middle east has been and where it is heading. before i ask you to help me welcome trend to come i want to not surprisingly he has a plane to catch at the end of the event. we are going to probably cut the q&a a bit short try and move everyone to get it signed. [applause] >> first of all, it's an absolute pleasure to be here. i can't remember the last time i saw so many people in the books are not as encouraging a so many different bubbles. buy this book. by all the books. keep the industry going. so as you just heard, this book is about the middle east. i'm into the middle is 20 years ago. i graduated college from stanford university in 1996 and the idea was i was going to go to a place where thought there'd be a lot of news that the middle east seemed like a good choice. i was going to start on my way and i was going to become the great foreign correspondent for at least a work