. >> host: margie, just to go back, jerry yellen, you mentioned historiedow, the last fighter pilot, 2 million views. did that translate into sales. >> guest: yes. it's been one of our most successful books in our regnery history line, since we launched that line several years ago. >> we started regnery history six years ago, launched our first book, and basically we did it as reaction to our need for a backlift. regnery political has always current events and political books from a consecutive point of view, but the books don't last more than two or three years soldier we wanted something that would stay on the shelves. we had done a couple of one-off history books and they were successful and seemed to mesh with what we do. an overlap of the audience. now we do history books. it's not history for conservatives, it's not political history, it's straight history. we have authors from different points of view but definitely a pro america perspective. we wouldn't do anything that is anti-american. we do a lot of military history, biography, and just general history and some fun books.

worldworld war ii veteran jerry yellen recalled his bombing missions over japan in his book, "the last fighter pilot," and max boot on his book, "the road not taken." booktv in prime time tonight on c-span2. >> for nearly 20 years, "in depth" on booktv has featured the nation's best known nonfiction writers for live conversations about their books. this year we're featuring best selling fiction writers for our monthly program. join us live sunday, march 4th, at noon eastern with jeff share rah whose novel, "gods and generals," was made into a major motion picture. his most recent book is "the frozen hours." his other books include to the last man plus 11 more novels which recount the military history of america from the american revolution to the korean war. during the program we'll be taking your phone calls, tweets and facebook messages. our special series in depth fiction edition with author jeff shaara sunday, march 4th, live from noon to 3 p.m. eastern on booktv on c-span2. >> join us saturday at 9:30 a.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3 at the american civil war museum

then jerry yellen recalls his bombing missions over japan in his book "the last fighter pilot." then later author max boot is interviewed about his book "the road not taken." book tv all this week in prime time on c-span 2. and join us tonight for remarks from vice president mike pence. he spoke at the conservative political action committee's annual gathering here in the washington area. you can watch his full speech tonight, 8:00 p.m. eastern on hour companion network c-span. >>> sunday on c-span's q&a, duke divinity school assistant professor and prosperity gospel scholar kate bowler talks about her memoir "everything happens for a reason" reflecting on being diagnosed with stage four colon cancer at the age of 35. >> i felt the presence of god. i felt the love of other people, just people pouring in, the intense -- all the intense prayers. i mean, the second i got sick, my whole little community got together in a chapel and just prayed like marathon runners for me, like handing off throughout my whole surgery. part of it was them reflecting back to me love and also was just

after that world war ii veteran jerry yellen recalls his bombing mission over japan in his book "the last fighter pilot" and later, author max boot is interviewed on his book "the road not taken," book tv all this week in prime time on c-span2. also today eric trump, son of president donald trump will address the annual conservative political action conference at maryland's national harbor. you can watch live coverage beginning at 6:00 p.m. eastern and our companion network c-span, and join us tonight for more cpac with remarks from vice president mike pence. he spoke this morning to the conservative gathering. you can watch his full speech tonight 8:00 p.m. eastern also on c-span. >>> sunday on c-span's q & a, duke divinity school professor and prosperity scholar kate buller talks about her memoir, everything happens for a reason reflecting on having stage 4 colon cancer at age 35. >> i felt the presence of god and the love of other people and just people pouring in the intense, all of the intense prayers. the second i got sick my whole little community got together in the chapel an

after that, world war ii veteran jerry yellen recalls his bombing missions over japan in his book "the last fighter pilot." and later, author max boot is interviewed about his book, "the road not taken." booktv all this week in primetime on c-span2. >>> also today, eric trump, son of president donald trump, will address the annual conservative political action conference at maryland's national harbor. you can watch live coverage beginning at 6:00 p.m. eastern on our companion network, c-span. >>> and join us tonight for more from cpac with remarks from vice president mike pence. he spoke this morning to the conservative gathering. you can watch his full speech tonight, 8:00 p.m. eastern, also on c-span. >>> for nearly 20 years, "in-depth" on booktv has featured the nation's best known nonfiction writers for live conversations about their books. this year as a special project, we're featuring bestselling fiction writers for our monthly program "in-depth fiction edition." join us live sunday march 4th at noon eastern with jeff shaara whose novel "gods and generals" was made into a motion

then jerry yellen in his book the last fighter pilot. and later author max boot is interviewed about his book, the road not taken. book tv all this week in prime time on c-span 2. also today eric trump, son of president donald trump will discuss national harbor. you can look live coverage beginning at 6:00 p.m. eastern on our companion network c-span. and join us tonight for more from c pack with remarks from vice president mike pence. he spoke this morning to the conservative gathering. you can watch his full speech tonight 8:00 p.m. eastern also on c-span. >> monday on c-span's landmark cases. we'll look at the supreme court case mccul la v. maryland. explore this case and high court's ruling with university of virginia far a peterson and mark kellen beck, alaska law professor and author of the book securing a nation. watch live monday 9 eastern on c-span or listen with the free c-span radio app. and background order landmark cases companion book, available for $8.95 plus shipping. and additional resources link on the website interacti

one of our most popular, most successful books is last fighter pilot and that's written by jerry yellen, he's still with us, 93 year's old, last fighter pilot and last mission out of japan when the emperor surrender and he goes every, where he givs talks, he's wonderful. >> who is sergeant reckless? >> a horse in the korean war and she was one of the most well-known animal heros of the last century and life magazine made top 100 heros and she was kind of forgotten. we had an author that came to us and read about sergeant reckless in a book somewhere and she did some research and connecticut find any memorial or anything about sergeant reckless, honoring sergeant reckless and so she raised over a hundred thousand dollars, built a memorial at virginia and then wrote the book, sergeant reckless which was a category best-seller for "the new york times" and she's got another -- she's put up another statute in southern california. it's incredible story. she was this horse they bought. she was supposed to be raised as racehorse and bought her to be mascot and delivered ammunition at the hill f

after that, jerry yellen recalls his bombing missions over japan in his book "the last fighter pilot." later, author max boot is interviewed about his book "the road not taken." book tv all this week in prime time on c-span 2. join us tonight for remarks from vice president mike pence. he spoke at the conservative political action committee's annual gathering here in the washington area. you can watch his full speech tonight, 8:00 p.m. eastern on our companion network, c-span. >> monday, on c-span's landmark cases, we will look at the supreme court case mccullough v maryland, a case that solidified the federal government's ability to take actions not explicitly mentioned in the constitution and restricted state action against the legitimate use of this power. explore this case and the high court's ruling with university of virginia associate law professor peterson and mark hillenbeck, university of arkansas law professor. watch landmark cases live monday at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, c-span.org or listen with the free c-span radio app. for background on each case, order a copy of th

world war ii veteran jerry yellen calls his bombing mission over japan in his book the last fighter pilot and max is interviewed on his book, the road not taken. but to be in prime time tonight on c-span2. >> sunday night on "after words" tara talks about growing up with survivalist parents in the idaho mountains in her book educated: a memoir. she is interviewed by author and journalist susanna. >> a lot of people seem to have taken to heart this idea that to learn something you have to have a degree you have to have a whole institution in place to teach it to you. i am grateful to my parents that i was not raised to think that so i decided i wanted to go to college when i was 16 it felt like something i could do, not because i had formal education but because i need to learn algebra and i will buy a book and i will learn it and i didn't do an amazing job. i barely got into the university but i kept going to that and i think, yeah, my parents took it too far. i arrived at the university underprepared and i once raised my hand in the class and asked what the holocaust was i had never hear

got a huge profile for jerry yellen in the post in the fourth of july was great to lead into that. on top of the video it married together so well because it was one of those ideal situations where it felt like everywhere someone turned they were hearing about this incredible story which is made the book be quite successful. >> host: how closely do you to work together? >> guest: very closely. our goal is as alyssa said, to try to have surround sound during launch where people are hearing about the book on radio and seen it on tv and then seeing it on facebook and see their friends post about it so we coordinate well and when there is a great media hit part of my job is to then take it and package it and test it out to our audiences on social and to our e-mail list. >> host: so a book like that an unknown story for the most part until the book came out versus pr for newt gingrich which is tougher? >> guest: that is an interesting question. i think it depends on what aspect you're talking about. for someone like newt gingrich it's easy to get on the media because he's already on tv

jerry allen started a group of us to meet regularly and try to advance diversity and agendas. >> who is your omwe person. >> sheila clarke. >> do you think you can increase your numbers as chairman yellen had worked on rising them -- while it was a f her -- i asked her the sam question. and she admitted itould be better. so while i'm saying you -- your entity has done something. i want to hear how we can do more. because it's still not at bragging rights in my opinion. i want to you think about that. we have a lot of people in the audience today in green t-shirts who represent many of the people i represent in the third congressional district, many of them women, many of them women of color, who also are concerned, the only difference with them is they put the people face, the human resources on the same monetary policy and all the questions my colleagues on other side have been asking you about numbers. have you met with these individuals? >> yes, i have. >> okay. and can you share with me some positive progress that you have or the people who work with you are doing with them? >> so we met with a group with the green t-shirts a couple of years back. >> yes. >> they wanted to tell us