carol lennox began reporting in the secret service for the "washington post" in 2012. in the prologue of her new book zero feel she started her coverage on the scandal which agents brought prostitutes at their hotel rooms while making arrangements for president obama to visit cartagena, colombia. we talked with her about her new book subtitled the rise and fall of the secret service. >> good evening everyone. welcome to our book talk this evening with john ferling author of "winning independence" and i'm joined with -- we are -- pop them into the q&a box and we will read them all at the end. i'll send it over to s my colleague to introduce john. >> thank you tina. the historical society is pleased to co-sponsor this conversation with a dedicatedt historians to enlighten us with new information and maybe new theories especially of the southern strategy. we loved that because as local a store and especially here in connecticut where many important figures of the american revolution came from as well as a few battles fought we always want to learn more. john ferling this

carol lennox began reporting in the secret service for the "washington post" in 2012.the prologue of her new book zero feel she started her coverage on the scandal which agents brought prostitutes at their hotel rooms while making arrangements for president obama to visit cartagena, colombia. we talked with her about her new book subtitled the rise and fall of the secret service.

carol lennox began reporting in 2012.the prologue of her new book, zero fail, she started on hooker gate in which agents brought prostitutes to their hotel room while making arrangements for president obama to visit colombia. >> and listen at c-span.org/podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. ♪♪ >> up next, new yorker writer, nicholas schmidle on the formation of the virgin galactic, and this is hosted by roman's bookstore. >> i'd like to thank you all for roman's bookstore. we are lucky to have nicholas schmidle, his new book "test gods", and it does contain a q & a, so if you want to ask a question, click the button at the bottom and if you'd like to purchase the book, click the green button. and with that out of the w