. >>> now joining us on booktv is clive priddle. when did public affairs get started. >> it's our birth day today. 17. >> host: how did it got started. >> guest: he wanted to set up an independent, nonfiction dedicated list that would be newsy, sharp, edgy, and we have continued in that tradition ever since. >> host: public affairs is the publisher of the c-span book but we wanted to talk to you about some of the upcoming fall 2014 titles that public affairs has. >> guest: well, thank you. very happy to mention a couple of them. so, the first i want to mention was a book called "city of lies." the author is a wonderful british iranian journalist, pulitzer prize-winning filmmaker, and her journey has taken her into the southern part of tehran, very mixed neighborhood, and she is really got a wonderfully revealing portrait of all kinds of different tehranys and the title of the book refers to the fact that in order to survive in a police state, which is a very repressive environment you have to be very creative with the truth, and hen