and joining us as their director of publicity, carolyn colburn.we wanted to ask you about some of the books coming out in the fall of 2012 from viking. let's start with our friend, kevin phillips. >> yes, kevin phillips is a great historian and analyst. especially as an author is coming out with 1775 this december. and by kevin does if he debunks the math is 1776 was the watershed year of the american revolution and instead looks at 1775 as the pivotal gear when all the events and conflicts were happening, so it analyzes 1775. and in usual fashion, it's very nuanced, meticulous research. it will be controversial as many of kevin spoke sorry. >> welcome at viewers are friends of kevin phillips, kevin phillips did our in-depth program. go to booktv.org and watch three hours. go to the search function in the upper left-hand corner. carolyn colburn, wanted to ask you also about another book coming out. this is mike lofgren's book, the party is over. >> the party is over. the subtitle says it all. how the republicans went crazy, the democrats became us

. >> we've been talking with carolyn colburn, director of publicity at viking press. >> steven jaffe reacts to the conflict in the early states a dutch trading post through the 19th and 20th century. the author examines how each conflict affected the city including the american revolution when 18,000 american prisoners of war died in british presents to an explosion in a harbor freight depot executed by german agents prior to the u.s. participation in world war i. this event held at the tenement museum in new york city is about an hour. [applause] >> thank you, maurice. it's a pleasure to be here. thank you all for coming for this. i just want to second but morris was saying earlier about the museum, but the tenement museum. if you have not taken this to her of 97 down the block here, which is really the core mission of this museum is to interpret that tenement house that was built in 1863 and the generations of immigrants who became new yorkers partly through living there, he really over to yourself. i really think it's indispensable to understanding new york city's history in the 1