cagooooor d you can watch three hours of kevin phillips. just go to the search fnction in the upper left-hand corner. carolyn coleburn i wanted to ask you so aboutanthooat omou ike fgsoothrt tars aih esuit y all. how the republicans went crazy, the democrats became useless in thbtatndle class gotshafted. kegrs our er aeof tollrllst t ll oat wrong. >> is that coming out fore the election? >> coming out in early august just in tim f th cin j.ti, i ryclck cane to marjorie for american lady. it is a biography onsusan mary alcott, true american shsarrd tooeoa e'gge,agt kissinger once said of her that more decisions and things were made in her iving oohan wheo aneoothie d in the new biography of joe alsop just come out? >> i believe so. there's a play on broadway too on oeap. itj go xa. vi? ldknbo honga been part of viking? >> oh, i think t's 79 years. i w o ka'mnow the birthdate , befuving ip, yeah. >> what kind of titles do you look for? what kind of authors do look for? >> award-winning serious nonfictionliterary fiction but lsjothmmal awbthne

i think it was kevin phillips, the political strategist who said the republicans go for the jugular,s go for the jugular and ferociously early to find. >> speaking of the jugular, can i play this? this is definitely -- i think this counts as a jugular. this was an ad that just was released today by the obama campaign. check it out. ♪ o beautiful for spatial skies "first look" for ever waves of grain snoetsz for purple mountains majesty above the fruited plain ♪ ♪ america america god shed his grace on thee ♪ ♪ and crown thy good with brotherhood ♪ >> so there's that. what do you think of that? you like it? >> yeah, i love it. i do. the thing is finally we're getting in early, you know, and letting, you know, setting this sort of thing. ai i agree. the reason it's working is it's by and large true. >> by and large is great modifier in politics. >> you could argue -- he was some part of bain between '99 and 2002, all right? i'm just saying. >> why does it matter? if i have that question, others do. >> no. it's great question. >> we talked about this before. it doesn't matter by itself t

kevin phillips is coming out with "1775". what kevin does is he debunks the myth that 1776 was a watershed year, they reckon revolution. instead looks at 1775 as the pivotal year as all the complex were happening, and so analyzes 1775. and usual kevin phillips fashion, very nuanced, to take it is researched, it will be controversial as many of kevin's books are. >> if you are sure fans of kevin phillips, kevin folks did our in depth program. you can go to booktv.org and you can watch three hours of kevin phillips. just go to the search function in the upper left hand corner. carolyn coleburn, i wanted to ask also about another book that is coming out. this is mike loughran's book, "the party is over." >> i think the subtitle says it all. it says how the republicans went crazy, the democrats became useless, and the middle class got shafted. so the subtitle says it all. mike, as many of your viewers know, is a 20 year veteran of capitol hill and he really just lays it all out with what's wrong. >> is that coming out before the e