professor mandelbaum is the christian a. hearner professor, founder of this school of american foreign policy and the director of the american policy program at sais. he's one of the leading authorities on international affairs and is known for his extraordinary ability to explain with great clarity the meaning and the consequence of conflicts, global developments and trends. the world affairs council of america named him one of the most influential people in american foreign policy. he's the author or co-author of over a dozen books just in the last ten years. he began with the ideas that conquered the world which has been translated into seven languages including arabic and chinese. and the frugal superpower, his 12th book -- the one before this one -- was published in 2010. professor mandelbaum and professor friedman, welcome. and, professor mandelbaum, the podium is yours. [applause] >> well, thank you. we are going to do a sequential duet, and i'm going to speak second, so let me introduce the first speaker. i'll be bri

come after america get ready for armageddon, henry kissinger on china; tom friedman and michael mandelbaum could and for that used to be as america fell behind the world invented and how we can come back and who is afraid of post blackness. ann coulter, marc stein, a conservative books in general. they seem to sell very welcome sarah weinman. >> guest: they do seem to be coming back very well that as any segment there is some attrition. again it seemed as if ann coulter's but didn't have the same impact as previous books. stein may have had some, but it's also interesting just to take a larger view that even though there are so many nonfiction books being produced the advent of some new digital companies that specialize in the shorter tone our companies like the bayh liner. what they are doing is publishing primarily nonfiction that runs between 10,000 words and will be interesting to see if some of these political books in my mind feels as if they are stretched out a little bit that they could have a really concise argument and about 100 pages of 20,000 they're about instead of being 250

mark stein's "after america: get ready for armageddon, henry kissinger, tom friedman and michael mandelbaum teamed up for "that used to be us," and toure, "who's afraid of post-blackness?" conservative books in general seem to sell very well, sarah weinman. >> they do seem to be selling very well, but as with any segment, there is some attrition. again, it seemed as if ann coulter's newest book didn't have the same impact as previous book. stein may have had some, but it's also interesting just to take a larger view of this that even though there are so many nonfiction books that are being produced, the advent of some new digital companies that specialize in shorter tomes, companies like byliner, what they're doing is they're publishing primarily nonfiction that run between, say, 10,000 and 30,000 words, and it'll be interesting to see if some of these political books which at least to my mind feel that they're stretched out a little bit, that they could have a really concise argument in about 100 pages or 20,000 words or thereabouts instead of being padded. you know, will they go over to a

stein's after america, get ready for armageddon, henry kissinger on china, tom friedman and michael mandelbaum teamed up for that used to be asked, how america fell behind in the world it invented and how we can come back into ray, who is afraid of post-blackness? ann coulter, mark stein, conservative books in general. they seem to sell very well sarah weinman. >> guest: they do seem to be selling very well but as of any segment there is some attrition. again, it seemed as if ann coulter's newest book didn't have the same impact as previous books. stein may have had some, but it's also interesting just to kind of take a larger view of this fact, even though there are so many non-fiction books being produced, the advent of some new digital companies that specialize in shorter tone, companies like the activist or by lightner, what they are doing is they are publishing permanently nonfiction that run between say 10,030,000 words and it will be interesting to see if some of these political books, which at least to my mind, feel as if they are stretched out a little bit, that they could have a real