dinesh d'souza and i have published five or six books together. i have been reunited with many these people as i have moved around from house to house. it's one of the nice things about longevity as an editor. as an editor your stock is a list of authors and your list of authors is very important and you hope that they will move with you and follow you from house to house and that's largely been the case. it's very gratifying. it does require patience. i always say editors have to be patient people because it sometimes takes years to get a book out of somebody. a good example is arthur brooks head of the american enterprise institute. i met arthur five years ago or so or six years ago where he was made president of aei. he had already published a number of serious and interesting books with basic books. i was very interested in him. we had a long conversation and he became an institutional figure in washington. he continued to write books for a while but finally five or six years later i have a book by arthur coming out in july called the conserva

back in the early 90s i made my first splash with the book by dinesh d'souza called illiberal education which is one of the first books to deal with the fall of the legal correctness on campus. i followed that up with a book by david brock who was at that me