. >> rose: back in a moment, stay with us, kati marton is here, a journalist and author, herself enbooks include enemies of the people and hidden power. her late cess a memoir t is called paris a love story. i am pleased to have her back at this table. welcome. >> thank you, charlie. it's wonderful to be back. >> rose: you've got me when you say paris and a love story, why did you write it? >> well, i fled new york to paris after richard holbrooke, your friend and my husband, sudden death. and because i couldn't pick up the thread of my life. there were too many ghosts in new york, particularly in our apartment. and paris was a place where so many good things have happened to me, at every stage in my life. so i wrote it because first of all, when richard died i started keeping a journal. and this is partly based on that journal. i con sleep. and so at night i would write. so i wanted this to capture what richard and i had. but also to make some kind of sense out of seemingly random events which-- which have made up my life. and somehow by writing it i see now trends and patterns. and i t

. >> author and human rights activists, kati marton is joined by 2011 peace prize winner, said seven and a dina powell come in the global head of corporate engagement from goldman sachs. posted by the hamptons institute and the roosevelt institute, this is an hour and 15 minutes. >> the executive to her and tracey marshall who puts together the production of these wonderful weekend programs. i am alan chesler, senior fellow at the roosevelt institute, part organization in this enterprise and we are now having the dirt under programming. i guess we are becoming in east hampton institution. i want to thank our underwriters. [applause] are the sponsors, but our family and the tub group and if local agent and then many of you and others who are not here on this gorgeous day, who has been faithful underwriters and sponsors and fellows of the program for three years. i want to think specifically who i gather us in the audience, donald molin of goldman sachs to help secure a wonderful speaker, dina powell and my good friend, abby disney who made the wonderful movie, pray that doubles back t

it is my pleasure to have the opportunity to introduce my dear friend, kati marton coming to see bush and best-selling author but also a longtime human rights activist who will in turn introduced the panel. kati come as you know are many of you know is an extraordinary memoir of growing up in hungry after world war ii and the experience of her parents, enemies of the people. it is a book you can't put down. her new book come about to come out in the two weeks as the story of her marriage and the loss of ambassador richard holbrooke. i just one of those previews and it is another must read you blog build a put down. i hope you all go buy it. unfortunately, it is not in the body because the publication date is two weeks. hence i know you all enjoy reading it. it is a special occasion for me to have this conversation because eleanor roosevelt really has is the founder of the human rights movement. went to the united nations is america's representative to the human rights commission, wrote and in that conversation, and made specific reference to the rights of women and the need to secure

one of the things kati marton, that i say, and i say to this group -- and you can take it and use it as a quote. what the nobel prize has done for me as a person is given me a local girl a global platform to advance the issues of rights of women and girls. >> that is wonderful and so inspiring. [applause] >> one more question. [talking over each other] >> we have the microphone there and then we will come to you. >> this is a question for leymah gbowee. i don't know if this is a silly question. but i admire the courage and the tenacity and obvious wisdom that you have brought to your experiences in their own country. you know, you have overcome such dramatic injustice and violence. i wonder if you have any thoughts for us women in the united states, who have been raised with wes of the dramatic challenges and have the illusion of equal opportunity. do you have anything, you know, trades or practices become successful, that you would maybe, in your wisdom, advise us -- maybe not just cracking the feeling, but shattering it, like you had in liberia. >> against first used to be afraid t

joining us now his widow and author of "paris a love story" kati marton.o paris in search of healing an distance paris holds memories of a time before peter, before richard, a time before i had children. grief imposes its own rhythms. my feelings of loss and sadness collide with an an tight for life which i have not felt since i was a girl here in 1968. i will try to live in paris at my own pace, the way i dreamed then. unlike in those days, i am not trying to be french. i am merely looking to live life more mindfully more respectfully. very, very good to have you on the show. >> thanks, mika. great to be back and as you know, richard loved being on the show, but sometimes i was just telling mike he would come home and say jesus, i knew all their parents. >> he does. he definitely did. yep. >> made him feel 100 years old but he loved you anyway. >> you decided to, boy, you decided as the "usa today" says, you decided to tell your story. >> big spread. >> flaws and all. >> yes. >> you go into it deep. when did you -- what part of the process did you decide