What Makes You Start Your Book in 1908?

We're going to try and confine today's discussion as much as possible to this period that you wrote about in the fall of the Sultanate. And then maybe we can talk a little bit about how what went on, then how that still sort of informs a lot of stuff that maybe doesn't make a lot of sense to us today. Why did you start your book in 1908? The Committee of Union Progress. That's when they take power of the Young Turks.