eric, you are on booktv with professor leslie brody. >> caller: good afternoon. 'm looking forward to reading professor brody's look. by chance i am now reading the new book called all in one basket. i just picked it up yesterday. they were a fascinating family. i wonder if you could go do a little more into the relationship between the sisters. they remain possibly with the exception of diana, very very close, jessica or just as she was called in the family i guess, with all the sisters and how diana divorcing ryan dennis and marrying moseley affected the relationship between the sisters and again i am really looking forward to reading her book. >> professor? >> thank you very much. i would say that she did remain close to her sisters most of her life. she tested herself against nancy. nancy was the great lady writer, the lady author who lived in paris and published many novels, and jessica often felt that she wanted to keep up with nancy. as far as diana, here is a good story about them. when diana and moseley were about to be released from prison in england, je

say, but i think the library will come back in her books will be there again. >> last call for leslie brody comes from derek in riverside, california. hi derek. >> caller: hi, hello. leslie cohen, congratulations on your book. like to ask a very important question. was jessica mitford's viewpoint about education and public assistance we are using in particular what was her thought about self education and learning how to learn which are also now very vital in our next steps of our country? i was wondering if you knew of the of her opinions about education? >> education was really vital to her. she always complained her whole life that her mother hadn't allowed her to go to school. they try to educate them through a series of nannies and governesses. she hadn't been permitted to do it. she wasn't allowed to mix with the lower class kids essentially, so she always resented that. she was very well-educated but self educated and impact once when she had to put down on my resume what college she had gone to, she wrote -- even though she hadn't attended in paris, she had once taken a class come,

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in three hours we're going to introduce you to author leslie brody who has written a book on jessica mittford, and then we'll be joined by john avlon, newspaper columns and their impact on american politics. and then in about four hours we'll wrap up live coverage from miami with jim rasenberger who's written a new book on the bay bf pigs incident in the early '60s. that's our lineup on c-span2, but you can also watch author events on book the.org. booktv.org. here on the campus of miami-dade college. so if just about two and a half hours or so, toure will be talking about his book, "who's afraid of post-blackness?" and he'll be talking about that book with the audience, you'll be able to watch that on booktv.org. that will be live webcast, and then stanley crouch, mike barnacle and pete hamill will be joining our call-in guest john avlon to talk about newspaper columnist and the art of writing a newspaper column. so you have your choice. you can watch booktv on c-span2, talk with authors, or you can watch booktv.org, and you can see some of the author events being webcast. well, in