strassel will argue the political left is using scare tactics to silence conservative speech. and this weekend republican congressman darrell issa talks about his time as chairman of the committee on oversight and government reform. >> congress has given up much of its power. periodically said we'll punt over to the administration. then when the administration takes all the power you give them -- and like most bureaucracies, takes more be they can -- we often find our constituents saying, where do we go to get fairness? how is it that unelected officials are making vast amounts of laws? but the other part of it is an interesting one. the courts, when addressing the oversight of congress, have always sided with the legitimate requirement and obligation of the administration to comply with our oversight. >> "after words" airs on booktv every saturday at 10 p.m. and sunday at 9 p.m. eastern.

you can watch all previous "after words" programs on our web site, booktv.org. >> host: margie raz of regnery, what are some of the books you have coming out this fall? >> guest: we are so excited. when it's an election year, regnery likes to get into things and try to connect with all the people who are thinking, what is going on in this crazy election year. so we have two big books coming, this one in late july, one in late august. and these are really geared for the election crowd. but we're moving into the general election season now instead of the primaries, so we're focusing our sights on -- not surprisingly -- hillary clinton. so the first book is a big book with a big author, dinesh d'souza. he's bringing out a book called "hillary's america." the subtitle is something like "the most frightening book you'll read this year," and it's

coming alongside a documentary which he's typically done with his last big book. this one is going to open in, i think, 2,000 theaters across the country on the same weekend that book comes out. the book comes out july 25th, so we're very excited about that. his last two books with us were number one new york times bestsellers. so we have high hopes more that. and then a month later we have a very exciting book by ed klein, also a multiple best-selling author. and this book is called "guilty as sin." and it's a book, a real investigative reporting book on what's going on with the justice department investigation, the fbi investigation into hillary clinton and where it will lead. and he's really well moan for developing -- well known for developing wonderful sources and getting stories months and months before they break anywhere else. so that's what we're hoping to do in this book as well.

>> host: two controversial authors. >> guest: yes. indeed. and, frankly, in this kind of environment when there's so much noise, you need controversial, outspoken authors to, i think, to move books. you know, there is a tendency especially in an election year for the news to be changing so quickly that people can't keep up, and book publishers have a very hard time keeping up in an election year. this one is more unpredictable than any i can remember. so this has been quite a challenge for book publishers. people are expecting, you know, the news changes every day, and people are expecting to hear what's new every day. so there's, you know, our challenge is always to find that interesting, controversial, provocative author and point of view that we think can tell a different side of the story. >> host: from a publisher's point of view, does hillary clinton sell?

>> guest: that's a really good question. yes and no. i think there are -- there has been, frankly, so many hillary books that if you just bring out another book that doesn't take a new angle or reveal new information, there's a very big risk that people will just say been there, done that. that's why we have -- as you pointed out, we look for authors who have a really good track record for digging up new dirt and for talking about topics that everyone's interested in but may be well covered in a really interesting, new way. >> host: what about donald trump? have you looked at books about donald trump? >> guest: that's such a good question. we actually -- here's an interesting publishing story. we published a book with donald trump, by donald trump back in 2011. last election cycle when he was thinking about running last time. great book, did very well. it was called "time to get

tough." well, last summer when it became obvious that he was throwing his hat in the ring, we looked at each other in our office and said, you know, we have a book by donald trump. why don't we put that out in paperback. we had to work -- we had to get his permission to do that by contract. so we called his office, and within a week they had gotten the approvals, they had turned it around, they had approved a new cover, they had worked with us to update the book. it was really impressive -- >> host: is that a short time in the publishing world? >> guest: it's a very short time. [laughter] and we got that book out in august. so "time to get tough," the paperback, came out right as the, you know, primary season was heating up, right as all the debates were happening. and we sold tens of thousands of books, of that book in paperback. >> host: marji ross, the conventions are coming up in july. you're putting out a fun little booklet. >> guest: thank you, we are. we thought in times like these

when all else fails, maybe you just need to have a drink. we have two books coming out, one is called "drinking with the democrats," and one is called "drinking with the republicans." and what we've done is take a lighthearted approach to the whole presidential election season and put together some of the favorite cocktail recipes of our presidents. and we divided it up, so the republican presidents, the democrat presidents. so you'll find cocktails and stories about presidential drinking in these two books. and we thought, you know, we will be equal opportunity players. we'll have a book for the republicans, a book for the democrats. and as these conventions unfold, i wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people thought that that was the best way to make it through this season. >> host: and one of the chapters in the "drinking with republicans" is called mixing with nixon. >> guest: that's right. we have a great story of him and how he liked to enjoy a cocktail.

and his favorite cocktail recipes. >> host: ann coulter has come back into the regnery fold. how is her latest -- >> guest: ann coulter wrote a fantastic book called "adios, america," which in many ways sets the stage for the trump campaign. she was talking about illegal immigration, honestly, before anyone else was. this was a very successful book, a big bestseller that we published last spring. and trump mentioned it in his speech. we mow that he read it -- we know that he read it and and he commented on it, praised it, and, of course, that's been a huge theme in his campaign. so in light of that and as he becomes the nominee, we're bringing that book out in paperback. so "adios, america," coming in paperback this august. and i really think that clearly the trump supporters and a large part of the country have agreed

that immigration and illegal immigration is one of the key issues that we have to address. and people as we've seen are fed up with both parties' answers and solutions to that problem. and looking for something new. >> host: marji ross. a couple of new divisions within regnery including regnery history. how's it doing? >> guest: thank you. yes, we launched regnery history a couple of years ago. we had always done a handful of history books, but we realized that was something our market really loved and something we really love. so we have a dedicated regnery history imprint. and one of the most successful books in that line that we've published this year is a book called "nine presidents who screwed up america." and we profile nine presidents, and we compare them -- we judge them by how well we feel they followed the constitution. which, of course, they pledged to uphold. and so that was the litmus test. and we profile be nine presidents who we feel did not

do a very good job in honoring that pledge. and so that's sort of an example of the way regnery tries to approach our history books. yes, we do history books, and they're very well researched and very well footnoted. we also try to take an interesting angle, and we also try to time them, as we do with our political books, to capture the imagination of our marketplace and to talk about things that people are talking about. so presidents that screwed up america, we're all in the process this year as americans of choosing our next president. we thought that would be a pretty timely book to publish this year. >> host: putting your business hat back on, what percentage of your revenues come from the print side? what percentage come from the e-book side? >> guest: well, we have seen, obviously, a big growth in our e-book sales over the past five years, and that's leveled off in the past 18 months.

so that we are in most cases selling about 25% of our book units in e-book. and, you know, i think that -- i know there are categories like fiction, which i should mention too in a minute, there are categories like fiction where you can see 50/50 splits between e-books and print books. but in our political books and in our history books, we're at about 25% on the e-book side. but i mentioned fiction. so let me share with you that regnery, for the first time in about 30 years, is publishing a fiction book this year. we're publishing a book called "liberty's last stand." 9 with steven kuntz. you know him, right? he's had several -- stephen

coontz. this is a book you could say could be a foreshadowing of what we have in store if you really take a bleak view of the future. it includes martial law, a suspended presidential election, an assassination attempt and texas seceding from the union. [laughter] so this may at the moment only occur in a regnery fiction book, but it is sort of just up our alley in the regnery side. so we're excited about that too. >> host: marji ross is president and publisher of regnery. thanks for your time. >> guest: thank you so much. good to be with you. >> here's a look at some books that are being published this week. author and filmmaker dinesh d'souza asserts that another clinton presidency will fundamentally change the country for the worse in "hillary's america." in "head in the cloud," william poundstone considers how the ease of finding information on the internet affects how people think.

frieda call live tells her personal story of being captured and enslaved by isis in 2014 and her escape in "the girl who escaped isis." in sam polk's "for the love of money," he describes his time working at a wall street hedge fund and what caused him to decide to leave. "the problem with socialism" is loyola college economics professor thomas de lorenzo's argument against socialist ideologies he sees in america today. and in "zionism," milson -- [inaudible] examines the origins of modern day israel and its role in middle eastern politics. look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for many of the authors in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> booktv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they're reading this summer. >> well, i hope to finish a couple books.

first of all, i'm reading freedom's cap which was begin to me by senator roy blunt. and this is a book that is about dome being put on the capitol building pre-civil war. but what is, i found, especially interesting as i get into the book is a focus on the house chamber and the senate chamber and how those were added to the original capitol building. and one of the main proponents of that is jefferson davis. so while we're approaching the civil war, we have jefferson davis really helping our country, helping build a capitol building which would serve our entire company. and we know later that he became the president of the confederacy. so that's a book that i'm hoping to get through. i've started it, and i need to finish it. i also want to read about destiny and power which is the

book by john meacham on george h.w. bush. i would like to get that done this summer. and then every summer i try to read a book that i've read before. last summer i read to kill a mockingbird. summer before that i read all the king's men which is one of my favorite books. and this summer i'm going to re-read dickens' a tale of two cities. >> booktv wants to know what you're reading this summer. tweet us your answer@week t or you can -- @booktv or post it on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> we have a very special program for you this evening. not one, but three very fine authors, all journalists, all seasoned, intrepid war reporters. they've written memoirs and are here to discuss their experiences in afghanistan, syria and other conflict zones.

first, at the far, my far right is jeneanety giovani, "newsweek"'s middle east editor and a contributing editor at "vanity fair." at the start of her journalistic career, janine covered the first palestinian intifada in the 1990s. 1980s, i had that, i don't know why i said 1990s. [laughter] in her latest book, "the morning they came for us," she chronicles the war in syria using seven different perspectives. she provides a vivid picture of a ravaged nation as experienced by its citizens. among them, a nun, a doctor, a musician and a student. their stories convey the realities of modern urban warfare from the pervasive smoke to the hunger to the return of such previously-vanquished