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. >> john donatich is the director of yale university press. this is book tv on c-span2. .. >> host: welcome to c-span2 after words. name is angl e irtohe cte our e.r.a. and russian at georgetown university and my guest is peter collier, and he is the author o "political woman. the big little life of jean kirkpak. . llieis pfi oger wttioap ofhe kennedys, the rockefellers, the ford, and the roosevelts, and we're very pleased to have him here today. jeanne kirkpatrick was pioneer in many ways. e was the first amerin woman e tehatmbassador to the ud cinank. she was a very important political player in both the democratic and then the republican party. she was also controversial. a pitical ideas were often critized. sh was neonsva i neonservative colleagues over the iraq war, but she certainly really was an outstanding political figure during the reagan era. so, my first question really i you hav written biographies of idts, bin wh did d tris biography of jeanne kirkpatrick, and maybe if you could say something about who she was, maybeor our younge