. >> lissa warren is now joining us on booktv here at book expo america. its publishers annual trade show. what d do you do and who do you work for? >> i'm the vice president, senior director of publicity and the requiring editor at the capitol press. >> what kind of books to publish? >> we do all nonfiction primarily in the fields of history, military history, biography, solid nonfiction titles and then we have a print press as a. >> when was it sounded? >> years ago. in fact, thank you for asking, this is our 50th anniversary. we are proud to still be around in the business that's a tough business these days. spent what are some of the titles? quite a few military history books coming out. >> it is a big military or. one i'm fond of is "crucible command" which is a dual biography of robert e. lee and ulysses s. grant written by william c. davis, a historian and that era. he also looks at the personal lives and we sit together very nicely. we have a book called first seals. he someone is in many books for us this is what it looks at the origin of the navy

. >> host: lissa warren, you mentioned you're an acquiring editor. how long is the process of getting the book on the shelfs to the time you acquire it? >> guest: it's just like having a baby, it takes about nine months from hand you script through the -- man you script, the copy editing process and then the cover design. i would have, at point, 20 children if i was having babies instead of publicizing books because i've been doing this for 20 books now. to write it, it usually takes a year or two, sometimes three if it's a long book or one that requires a lot of research. they are pretty knee deep in evaluating copy edit suggestions that have been made. that can take several weeks. occasionally a month or two, but we don't always have that long. we also need to keep books in the season that they've been slotted, and so we have to keep the schedule, and the authors get some time with them, sometimes not as much time with them as they would like, but it is quite the process, and it all goes on, of course, behind the scenes so the consumer, the reader

>> we been talking with lissa warren of the capital books. we are at book expo america where all the publishers come annually in new york city to display their wares or the fall season. yoyou are watching booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. >> eugene steuerle argued that reason federal budget decisions have angered the building of policymakers to solve many of today's problems. he says that education, public welfare, and housing policies are being affected the most. this hour and 10 the program starts now on booktv. >> well, welcome. my name is p. jay kiedrowski, i'm a senior fellow here at the humphrey school and faculty director of the public and nonprofit leadership center. were happy to host this event today. what we're going to do is have a presentation by doctor sternly, some comments by fellow senior fellow here at the humphrey school, art rolnick, and then some questions from you and some answers from dr. steurle. see eugene steuerle is a richard b. fisher chair and institute fell at the urban institute, and the colonis

. >> host: lissa warren is now joining us on booktv here at bookexpo america, the publishers' annual trade show. lissa, what do you do, and who do you work for? >> i'm the senior director of publicity at da capo press. >> host: what kinds of books do you publish? >> guest: primarily history, military history, biography. >> host: and how was it founded? when was it founded? >> guest: 50 years ago. in fact, thank you for asking, this is our 50th anniversary. we're very proud to be around in a business that's a tough business these days. >> host: what are some of the titles? you've got quite a few military histories coming out in the fall. >> guest: one that i'm particularly fond of is crucible of command, and it's written by william c. davis. he looks very much at their time in battle with each other, but also at their personal lives and weaves it all together very nicely. we also have a book called "first field" by patrick k. o'donnell, he's someone that's done many books for us, and this is one that looks at the origin of the navy seals unit; how it started with a dentist and an archa