in this case adam friedman knew exactly what he wanted to do. >> finally mr.bellow, you mentioned at the beginning you would like to see -- you are a country and. do you come from a concert of background? >> that's an interesting question. it's a difficult question to answer. put it this way, my mother was a red diaper baby, raised as a communist in new york city. so to her i have -- and i grew up in -- so i'm very much a product of that era and one of the things i would observe is i have now published i would say three generations of conservative writers. teach one is different. each generation is very much marked by the culture, by the temper of the culture in which they grew up so i have to say i'm a product of my time in that respect but i'm also the son of a well-known novelist, saul bellow, who had a sort of classic neoconservative trajectory. he started out as a trotskyist in the 1930s and like many jewish leftists, began to move to the right when communism was undeniable and because of his concern about the security of israel and then in general he had

the constitutional affairs who can read, entertaining somebody on level of jeffrey toobin, i see adam friedman having a significant -- >> race-based? >> here in new york. he works for a law firm. a comment for ricochet dot com. i expect him to have a very good career. >> was this an idea that he had? >> well, many of these books, i have to say, are a product of a collaboration. an author will come with an idea. i have to say, it is difficult to have ideas for writers, and it is not like you are a magazine editor and newspaper editor and you call somebody up and sell what 400 words on this by thursday and up you whenever it. if you want someone to write a book you are giving them an idea that there will have to live with for a couple of years. although many editors like to suggest ideas to others, it turns out and practice to be not such a great idea. in this case, he knew exactly what he wanted to do. >> finally, you mentioned at the beginning you like to be a contrarian. do you come from a conservative background? >> that is an interesting question. it is a difficult question to answer. let m