she tells the story of her love affair and eventual marriage to a member of president mikail gorbachev's inner circle and head of the soviets civilian space program. this program originally aired on september 13, 1995 and it's about an hour. c-span: susan eisenhower, why did you call your book "breaking free"? >> guest: well, i think it was designed to accomplish a lot of things. it certainly tells a bit of the story of what my own personal struggle was that all took place

she tells the story of her love affair and eventual marriage to a member of president mikail gorbachev's inner circle and head of the soviets civilian space program. this program originally aired on september 13, 1995 and it's about an hour. c-span: susan eisenhower, why did you call your book "breaking free"? >> guest: well, i think it was designed to accomplish a lot of things. it certainly tells a bit of the story of what my own personal struggle was that all took place against a backdrop of huge political events, where the soviet people were, in fact, breaking free of their past. so it has sort of multiple meanings. and actually, the concept of freedom is dealt with quite a lot in the book. c-span: what's the book about? >> guest: well, the book is about my love affair and eventual marriage with a member of gorbachev's inner circle, a man who was a member of the communist party and the head of the soviet space program at the time. i should say the civilian program. but really, it's this story set against the backdrop of the end of the cold war and the collapse not only of the soviet