The Authors@Google program was happy to welcome David Kaplan to speak about his new book "Mine's Bigger: Tom Perkins and the Making of the Greatest Sailing Machine Ever Built"

David A Kaplan is a Senior Editor Newsweek and the author of "The Silicon Boys" and "The Accidental President" (the latter is the basis for an upcoming HBO movie, "Recount," the story of Florida in 2000).

With his new book "Mine's Bigger", David gives us the behind the scenes story of the boat and the man behind the dream. With Tom Perkins' cooperation--and with David aboard the great yacht for its maiden voyage across the Mediterranean--David tells the story of the engineer who attacked the project in the same way he made his professional fortune using incredible vision for never-before-seen technologies and strategies to reduce risk combined with ambition and boldness needed to create something new. Even if you don't know anything about sailing, you'll want to hear about this $130 million wonder that represents the most daring advance in sailing technology in 150 years.