I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.
My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies.
If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.