and jonathan and amie parnes gained extraordinary access to this typically guarded hillary clinton.th interview with her and 200 hours. and confidents, critics and enemies. there is a pleasure to see the floor to jonathan and amie parnes and let them tell you what i learned about a woman who has been at the center of american political life for while more than two decades. thank you. [applause] >> thank you all for coming. >> thank you to wells fargo and to marty for the kind introduction. as son of a former professor, i would like to thank you. could you wave? hillary clinton became boring and uninteresting to news people over the last 20 years. i am kidding about that. every time i look at my iphone there's a new story about hillary clinton often avoid of news and i think we have to get used to that. i suggest humbly if you read the book, you can stop paying attention to news reports about her for a year-and-a-half. these pick up when you get into the primary. the general election season. >> i think the biggest thing we both came in to this with certain goals. my personal goal was

we are going to take you to the history and biography pavilion now which is right over here and amie parnes and jonathan allen are going to be talking about their book "hrc" state secrets and the rebirth of hillary clinton. some of the upcoming events after this author presentation included an interview with cokie roberts kai bird "the good spy" will be talking about his book and the granddaughter of nikita khrushchev will be talking about her book. her name is nina khrushchev and she is the lost khrushchev. that's the name of her book. this is live coverage on booktv on c-span2. now if you don't feel like watching history and biography today you can turn to c-span. we are covering the science pavilion all day long on c-span as well. so you have two channels from the national book festival this year. thanks for joining us. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good morning. it's great to see you all this morning. we are very very excited to be here at the national book festival. my name is mike riser and i head the community relations for wells fargo. i'm very proud to say this is our fourth consecutive