and biographer, the author, susan hertog. she is the author of the critically acclaimed book, anne morrow lindbergh, her life. her latest book is entitled dangerous ambition, rebecca ward and dorothy thompson, two women in search of love and power. that sounds pretty good as a theme for women in our lives and in our modern history. this is a very outstanding book. she scores the lives of two early people in the feminist array, but very unusual and interesting ones. their early lives to work in journalism, susan hertog not only writes remarkable works of nonfiction, but she and her husband support programs that improve the expertise of other such writers. and i have to express a principled interest in this, because my discovery of rebecca -- rebecca west magical book was called black lamb and grey falcon. is one of the inspirations for how to write about foreign countries, foreign regions with a flashback of history and a great deal of total sensitivity. that we try to capture not in our world at the library of congress. so th

[applause] ♪ >> you can see susan hertog talking with the library of congress.ames billington life from the national book festival this is book tv on c-span2. in just a few minutes, john will be in the history and biography tent talking about his book on clarence attorney for the dam is what is called. but here on the book tv set a few days from the history and biography tent we are joined by a face you may not know what a voice you will know, steve, co-host of the morning edition on npr and author of this book his first book instant city life and death in karachi. what happened on december 28, 20009? >> thanks for the institution and what you are doing that on december 28, 2009 there was a religious procession in the middle of this gigantic city one of the rapidly growing cities in the world that was bombed. it's a tragic story but when you begin digging into the details of that day, peeling back layers what i discovered was the story that to me eliminates the way the world is developing and is growing and different kinds of people are coming together rushing o