. >> george gibson is the publishing director of blooms berry. >> worldwide publishers, the u.s. division of it, founded in 1998, the company was funded in 1986, after first harry potter novel they opened in the united states. >> what kind of books do you publish? >> about 110 books a year. largely nonfiction, we do 20% is fiction but a lot of history and politics and current events and food-related books, populist science, those are the four areas and memoir as well. >> well, we want to catch up with you at the publishing convention to talk about some of the books that are coming out this fall and you have one coming out on lyndon johnson. >> a woman named joan melon. lbj accomplished a lot as a president but had a very dark side and the story told from a lens and only interacted with lyndon johnson on a couple of occasions. amazing guy and the best way to describe is he in 1951 he walked into a small golf course owner in austin, texas and shot the man dead. he was arrested two hours later and he said to the arresting officers that the texas rangers, i work for lyndon, i have to

[inaudible] [inaudible] >> here's a look at some books that are being published this week: >> george gibsonis the publishing director of bloomsbury. what is bloomsbury, mr. gibson? >> guest: in the u.s. anyway it's a division of bloomsbury plc, a worldwide publisher. founded in 1998. bloomsbury, as a company, was founded in 1986, and after the publication of the first harry potter novel, they opened a business in the united states, and i'm the publisher of the adult division here. >> host: what kind of books do you publish? >> guest: we publish about 110 books a year, largely nonfiction. we do, i'd say, 20% of the list is fiction, but a lot of history and politics and current events and food-related books, popular science, those are the core areas that we publish and some memoir as well. >> host: well, we want to catch up with you here at the publishing convention to talk about some of the books that are coming out this fall, and you've got one coming up on lyndon johnson. >> guest: we do. it's called faustian bargains, and it's really the story of the dark side of lyndon johnson. lbj accom

. >> george gibson is the publishing director of the bloomsbury. what is bloomsbury, mr. gibson? >> bloom's barry is a division of plc worldwide publisher founded in 1998. blooms very the company was founded in 1986 and after the publication of the first harry potter novel they opened a business in the united states and got the publisher of the adult division here. >> what kind of books do you publish them at about 110 books a year, and largely nonfiction, 20% of the list is fiction, but a lot of history and politics and current events and food related books, popular science. those are the core areas we publish. >> we went to catch up with you here at the publishing convention to talk about some the books coming out this fall and you have one coming up on lyndon johnson. >> we do. is by woman named joan mellon and it's really the story at the dark side of lyndon johnson. lbj accomplished an enormous amount, they had a dark side and this story is told through the lens of a man completely unknown to history named matt wallace who only interacted with lyndon johnson on a couple of o

my publisher of cod, george gibson, was really pushing me to do salt. and i hesitated for a long time because what's important to me is storytelling. and i kept asking where is the story. well, the story is that everybody thought this stuff was to damn valuable, and then it lost all its value. and i wonder, you know, george w. bush, an oilman, read that book, apparently talked about it a lot. he's photographed a number of times holding the book. >> really? [laughter] >> i wonder why. i wonder if he saw this parallel between salt and oil. i don't know. >> could have. did anyone mistake the salt book forking being a food book? -- for being a food book? do they ever get mistakenly put in that section of the book bookstore? >> yeah, you know, the thing that's sort of fun when i'm on book tour, they'll take me to some of the larger stores, the chain stores, and they'll say this is mark kurlansky to sign books you have in place, and they'll be running all over the place because they're in so many sections of the store. .. it is a read that gets unraffled >> i

. >> host: george gibson is the publishing director of bloomsbury. what is bloomsbury, mr. gibson?guest: it's a division, if you will, of bloomsbury plc, a worldwide publisher, so we're the u.s. acquisition founded in 1998 -- after the publication of the first halfly potter novel, they opened a business in the united states, and i'm the publisher of the adult division here. >> host: what kind of books do you publish? >> guest: we publish about 110 books a year, largely nonfiction. we do, i'd say, 20% of the list is fiction, but a lot of history and politics and current events and food-related books, popular science. those are the core areas that we publish in. some memoir as well. >> host: well, we want to catch up with you here at the publishing convention to talk about some of the books that are coming out this fall, and you've got one coming up on lyndon johnson. >> guest: we do. it's called faustian bargains, and it's really the story of the dark side of lyndon johnson. lbj accomplished an enormous amount as a president, but he had a very dark side, and this story is told throu

gibson here with the story. good morning, kendis. >> good morning, george. this was fascinating. 911 caller was so convinced that he was in a plane crash, vividly describing the crash scene, and it was all his imagination. the call came to 911 early in the morning, just outside seattle last month, a man claiming he just survived a plane crash and needed help. >> are you able to safely get out? >> no. i'm pinned in. >> reporter: the 75-year-old caller said he was in the plane with three other people, but they were unconscious. >> are you able to look out the window? are you able to see the wing from where you're at? >> no, i can't see anything. >> reporter: it's the stuff of nightmares, and this morning the caller tells abc affiliate komo that's basically what it was, all of it, a hallucination caused by the sleeping pill ambien. the man who didn't want to go on camera tells our affiliate he was at home the entire time. during the call. in fact, from sleep-eating to sleep-driving, others have claimed damaging side effects as well. in new jersey police arrested this woman who appea