i want to thank julianne malveaux, dr. malveaux for a wonderful "surviving and thriving" and "black titan." thank you so much. i am carol jenkins. we will see a next time. thank you. love you all. we have a book signing outside. my sister, where is it? >> at the penguin booth. i will be at the penguin booth. next to the penguin booth for a book signing. hope to see all of you out there. thank you also much for your kind attention. >> wrapping up the african-american economic history discussion here from the 2011 harlem book fair. at the new york public library schomburg center for research in black culture. tvs live coverage from the harlem book fair continues in just a couple of minutes. up next the a panel exploring the history of african-american humor. we will have more from the 2011 harlem book fair after this break. what are you reading this summer? booktv wants to know. >> i have a whole long list of books but some are unfinished and some are new. the first book i'm working on is monsoon, which is a book by robert k

he talks with author and educate are julianne malveaux. >> kenneth walsh, this book, "family of freedom" is just a fascinating piece of work. i really enjoyed it and was envious of you. you are talking about african-americans in the white house both as members of the cabinet but also as servers, enslaved people. >> right. >> talk a little bit what motivated you to do this. >> there were a couple of things as a white house correspondent i covered the white house since 1986 full-time, you are looking for ways to see the president and getting behind the curtain and public relations and so on so tee what they were really like. i've written four other books. what i tried to do is find some prism to look at them through to find something different. >> if i might say you really have. your book about the presidential retreats is fascinating because it really is, like you're looking at the presidency with something that people wouldn't pick up. >> thank you. and, in this case i thought there was a, very important and fascinating issue of race that's been with us from the very beginning in the un