chewy can't help you. >> larry: chewy can't spot anybody? >> he's a turtle.s an appendage. >> larry: lots about your family in your new book. by the way, your late mother was mormon and your father was jewish. >> larry: you were raised, how? >> i was raised not mormon. >> larry: does that mean you were raised jewish? >> they asked me to choose between judaism and mormonism and one sister told me, you can't drink or have sex. >> larry: lots about your family in the new book, especially with your dad, it's not exactly father knows best stuff, but here's an example. to be very clear, this is from the book. "my father had no friends, so when he says anything intimating that he does, i know more likely than not that he's referring to one of his jamaican girlfriends. we just know he's very secretive, has a prescription for cialis and frequently has over young black jamaican women who are supposedly cleaning and hide in the bathroom when someone drops by his house unannounced." how did your father react to that? >> my father said to me when the book came out and i w

ryan's trying to be funny, and a comedian he is not. >> larry: chewy can't help. >> chewy can't spoturtle. >> larry: chewy is an apparatus for you. >> he's an appendage. >> larry: lots about your family in your new book. by the way, your late mother was mormon and your father was jewish. >> you're married to a mormon woman. >> larry: you were raised, how? >> i was raised not mormon. >> larry: does that mean you were raised jewish? >> they asked me to choose between judaism and mormonism and one sister told me with mormonism you can't drink, can't have caffeine and can't have sex. i was like, i'll take the dreidel. >> larry: lots about your family in the new book, especially with your dad, it's not exactly father knows best stuff, but here's an example. to be very clear, this is from the book. "my father had no friends, so when he says anything intimating that he does, i know more likely than not that he's referring to one of his jamaican girlfriends. none of my brothers and sisters can get an honest answer from him regarding his personal life and to be honest we'd rather not know the

and also to and $5.2 upstairs to the feminist press office is to have little reception in honor of chewyand she will be signing books as well. that is room 54 '06 goes to the fifth floor and follow the signs and you will follow your way they're. stay brief introduction she is a professor of history. and i think the fact that she is a historian is very important to the book because she knows how to tell a good story and this is the second but she is also author of women and historic call story of america. [applause] >> thank you. there is a lot of people and i am thrilled park, of people line no. i have a couple of students hear that are great. this of the fact you guys are here i am thorough by now you have to our three jobs at a time and people from a feminist press also the science and the arts the feminist press the graduate center and of course, c-span and everybody else to put this together today. it is a very rare opportunity weekend to talk about the stuff that the right about propriety tshombe's glasses and talk about american history but never get to talk about the stuff i am ac