who would have ever thought that john ringling owned this land. turns out you know forget the service that was just a seed money for a fortune i never knew about. it is like that. and while we are getting the mic over to the next person here in the audience, let's hear from michael in pasadena california. michael, please go ahead you are on booktv. >> caller: i read. [inaudible] but then i read white trash which is a history of discrimination and the class structure in this country. some colonial times although it up to the present and that is an extraordinary book if you want to know why, the south with respect to the north. and the discrimination which has taken place. not just against the black people. but also against white people and how that is today. the other book i have been reading and it is a very important book as well, is washington's farewell address. essentially in that book you see how washington saves the united states three times. once in the revolutionary war and twice as he became president. at times in this country could have