why not go all your books hachette? >> the wonderful thing about publishing is successful publishing is done out of creative teams that have the kind of focus on the kind of book we are doing. a way of publishing. you a notice throughout times the publishing companies that have two peoples names together, little and brown, the harper brothers for a long time. publishing is a collective activity. so you want to group that are focused about individual titles. one brand across all those books would lose it into the object of each of those publishing imprints as to the different personalities, different books they love, giveaways to bring them into the world and you want to have that branding not because of consumers care so much. nobody is looking a at a spine d see if the basic book necessarily, but the people in between the publisher and the reader, all the tv reviewer's, bloggers, librarians, booksellers, they know those brands. they know the publishing group and another person of the enemy something to those people whe

i mean, hachette is known in the united states for publishing a lot, a lot of fiction. perseus is all nonfiction, so i think it's a really good counterbalance. they've been really lovely. i mean, they're just taking the whole group and picking it up and moving it over. so i still have the same staff and the same books and the same boss. so it's sort of minimally traumatic as a buyout can be. >> host: lara heimert is the publisher of basic books. you can look for some of their titles this fall. this is booktv on c-span2. >> booktv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they're reading this summer. >> right now i'm reading a book called mountain meadows written by richard turley, and can't remember the names of the co-authors. it's a historical account of an event called the mountain meadows massacre that took place on september 11th, 1857, in southern utah. it was a tragic event but one that factored significantly into the history of the tate of utah, where -- the state of utah, where i come from. and some of my ancestors lived in southern utah at

on we half of center street -- behalf of center street and hachette book group, i'm pleased to introduce gary byrne. he served in federal law enforcement for nearly 30 years in the uniformed division of secret service and most recently as a federal air marshal. while serving as a secret service officer, gary protected president bill clinton and the first family in the white house. a note from the office of bill clinton's chief of state included praise of byrne. your knowledge of the oval office, the president and the presidency is enviable. because of his dedication to the duty and by-the-book mentality, he was unofficially dubbed mayor of the west wing by his colleagues. in 1995 byrne received an evaluation from his superiors praising him as a mature and dependable employee who's an exceptionally well-informed member of the west wing detail who consistently performs in a highly efficient and conscientious manner. in march 1996, the secret service issued a letter of communication on the professionalism and the knowledge displayed by officer byrne. in july 1996 he received a letter of app

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