u.s. marshals in the 13 colonies. and today the president still appoints the 94 u.s. marshals confirmed by the senate. you would think in law enforcement that would change: it hasn't. as is our deputy and director, they're appointed by the president as well. >> thank you so much. >> couple more. >> i'm just curious from a spouse perspective, what is it like many in the day of a life of a spouse? >> i'm curious, sir. thank you for asking that question. hand her the microphone. >> you're not the first one that's asked me that question. um, you know what? i'm the type of person that i don't really think about it. and i just don't think about what he does. i keep myself busy. but when i do think about it, i kind of freak out. i mean, he always was really good at keeping in touch and,

you know, kind of thing and where they were, what they were doing, but there were a few times that he wasn't calling, and you know it, that was things incidents had happened, whether they even got in a car accident or somebody, you know, was taken to the hospital. so it was one of those things when you think about it, you worried about, you know, when you were in d.c. with the sniper case, when you were watching tv and where they were doing, you know, the chase down the highway, him crashing at 100 miles an hour. you know, little instances like that more than getting shot. i know he's very good at what he does. and really, you know, he always told me what he did, and then when he was on the showman hundt, you really saw what he did. that was more reality. and, you know, i always knew he was good at what he did, so that always got me through. >> and my life is a deputy u.s.

marshal -- my wife is a deputy u.s. marshal, and she carries a gun now, so i behave myself. [laughter] >> thank you all so much for coming. we really enjoyed it. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. >> we appreciate it. >> didn't even see you sitting there. how you been in good to see you. >> well, that's mike. [inaudible conversations] >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. here's our prime time lineup for tonight. at 7:15 p.m. eastern, john fund and hans -- [inaudible] discuss eric holder and his management of the justice department. then at 8:15 heather williams sits down with booktv to talk about her book, "help me to find my people." at 9 p.m. eastern time, former senator james webb recounts his career. and at 10 on "after words," qaz

city war tech looks back at the history of money. and we conclude at 11 p.m. eastern with jo becker detailing the legal strategies and battles in recent years for marriage equality. that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> jackie, what do you do here at simon & schuster? >> i'm the executive art director for the simon and schuster imprint. >> and what does that mean? >> well, i oversee, direct and design the simon & schuster imprint, and there are many different imprints of simon & schuster, scrivener, touchstone, atry ya, gallery. there's all different art directors, but i solely do the simon & schuster imprint. >> so you do the covers of books. >> yeah. >> host: what goes into a cover of a book? >> guest: well, the first thing that when we hear about this

project usually from the editor, we find out what the book is about. there's a manuscript or sometimes there isn't, sometimes there's just a little bit to read, and you get a flavor of what the voice of the author is. and from that we kind of have a discussion with the editor, the publisher and the author to find out do they have any preconceived notions of what they're looking![k for, and it's always good to hear that up front. you get -- even if they don't, you get a sense of their aesthetics, and you can do some research at the bookstores, see what the competition is like, what a books are going to be -- what the books are going to be facing in that limited book shelf space. >> host: i want to start with this one, and this is former senator james webb -- >> guest: yeah. >> host: his new book, "i heard my country calling." how did this develop? how did this cover develop?

>> guest: well, this was actually pretty straightforward in that it's the story of his and his father's years in war, and he had these, a trove of photographs. and so we knew he wanted to kind of give it a little illustrative look, a little bit of a nostalgic feel. so it was marrying the two photos together so that they were cohesive. >> host: what went into your madison's gift: five partnerships that built america by david stewart? this is a new book, right? >> guest: right, this is a new book. well, it is madison, so kind of called for having his photo on it. and because of the subtitle, the five partnerships, you know, you kind of need to explain that, what does that mean and who are those five people.

so in this case it worked out nicely that we had five beautiful portraits of the five people that mattered. >> host: one of the other books you worked on, jack can key seow, was "the bully pulpit." and we all know what the cover looks like. here's the cover of the book, and that's the finished product. but what was this? >> guest: so, you know, when we first learn about a book and we do a little exploration as to the photographs that are out there, there were great photographs of the two of them together. and so we thought that was a great opportunity tobe design something with that. but when we had started to look at it, it didn't have the big look that we wanted, the epic feel. and you see that typography has

that feel of that historical feel. but then we started to think maybe it needed to just look classic. so we tried some different fonts, tried adding a little color, and, yeah, so that's how we ended up. >> host: did doris kerns goodwin have any say in the cover -- >> guest: oh, absolutely. >> host: do authors get to say yea or nay to a cover, or is that the publishers? >> guest: absolutely. both do. obviously, an author who's worked on their baby, so, and they're going to go out on the road selling the book. so you want them to be happy. >> watch booktv's entire tour of our recent visit to the book publisher simon & schuster where we speak to many of the people responsible for taking a book from acquisition to publication. be -- it airs next saturday at 8:45 p.m. and sunday at 4:30 p.m. eastern on booktv on c-span2.