she called her good friend, the private detective julius crone who was a federal agent and first assigned to grace during her u.s. district attorney days. grace, one of things i found out was she was the first u.s. district attorney. this is a major historical point and you have to look really, really really hard to find it any where. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> you are watching booktv. television for serious readers. you can watch any program you see here online at booktv.org. ask r >> and now booktv is live from the gaithersburg book festival. you will hear from several authors. foreign policy magazine executive editor sharon wineburger. maria olson is up first. she is the author of "not the cleaver family" about the modern family structure. this is booktv's coverage of the gaithersburg book festival. >> good morning, how is everybody doing? i am danny windborne. i am a planning commissioner in the city of gaithersburg as well as a member of the book festival committee. this is our 8th annual books festival and we are so happy to have everyone here.

she called her good friend, the private detective julius crone who was a federal agent and first assigned to grace during her u.s. district attorney days. grace, one of things i found out was she was the first u.s. district attorney. this is a major historical point and you have to look really, really really hard to find it any where. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> you are watching booktv. television for serious readers. you can watch any program you see here online at booktv.org. ask r >> and now booktv is live from the gaithersburg book festival. you will hear from several authors. foreign policy magazine executive editor sharon wineburger. maria olson is up first. she is the author of "not the cleaver family" about the modern

come up with a plan and she got to her office, called her good friend the private detective named julius crone a federal agent first assigned to grace during her us district attorney days and one of the things, she was the first female district attorney and this was a major historical point and you have to look really really hard to find it anywhere. it is a major accomplishment. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> sunday night on afterwards, chris hayes examines how the criminal justice system is dividing the country in his book a colony in the nation. mister hayes is interviewed by elizabeth hinton. >> seems like ferguson is an anchor in the book. i'm wondering how your experience reporting there illuminated what you are talking about growing up in the bronx in the 80s. >> the thing about ferguson if you grow up in a city, in the bronx you have this conception of cities as think tanks leading cities there are racial frictions, bad neighborhoods and good neighborhoods, all kinds of loaded ways in which police communities differently, loaded ways people sit atop e