[applause] >> i'm from roman and littlefield. >> oh, you're my hero. look at this, we're already way up on the chart. how do you know? >> no work was done at our office today. everybody was just going on amazon. >> i don't even know quite how to find it. but that's a lot of fun. then we'll do more projects together. >> i'd of love to do more projects together. >> i don't know how you did it so quickly. >> this is our publisher, marcus boggs. >> marcus, thank you so much. this is a great partnership. >> yes, it is indeed. >> it's fantastic. >> i just said that, let's do some more, because you know, we want to get out there and talk more broadly, and to actually have it published and out in the marketplace and not just be our product, you know, puts enormous credibility on it and the fact that it becomes marketable and it's actually moving up the charts, you know, that guess an endorsement of what the topic is, so you guys guessed right. thank you. >> absolutely. >> thank you. >> well, thank you. >> i don't know if we can do anything quite so quickly aga

frances received the contract from roman & littlefield on september the 9th. on november the 9th, two months later to the day, this book was number 18 on amazon. that is a tribute to our publishers as well as to frances. [applause] >> i want to introduce, if i could, a very special guest we have here tonight with us. when president obama began putting his cabinet together a year ago, one of the very first appointments he made was to the administrator of the environmental protection agency. that was important because the president understood the vital role that this agency plays in the protection and preservation of our air, our water, our lands, and our health. and so when it came time to appoint the best person he could find anywhere in the country for this difficult but vital job, he chose a woman who's a product of two distinctly american cultures. lisa jackson was born in the pennsylvania dutch country, and she was raised in the great city of new orleans. now, she knows what it's like to move with grace between two worlds. my mother-in-law came from new or