it came out in 2000 and spent seven weeks on "the new york times"' bestsellers' list. so for those of you who have bought my books, i thank you, because now i don't have to practice law full-time anymore. >> but all kidding aside, you know, i think crime novelists and readers of crime novels whether it's lawyer books or whether it's private detectives or cops, you know, in my world i'm like -- unlike tony's, i can control the outcome. i can get justice in my books because i can fix the ending. and i start -- and most authors do i start with the ending. i know who did it, how and why. and by god, when i write that book, i'm going to make sure justice is served. i think that's why people keep coming back to lawyer books in particular because there's a lot of drama in the courtroom. there's always a murder. there's always big stakes. i've written books about death penalty cases. the stakes don't get any bigger than that. and i think it was important to me to have the center of my books a defense attorney who is the kind of guy, the tony serra's of the world, the person you

all that information to the iranian nuclear weapons program but nuclear triggers now that new york times bestseller eat what he brought it back in two thousand and six with his book state of war and he didn't want that and so much so they began investigating who his sources were and according to rice or at least the affidavit he got out this week they got a scam rocker's ending at his unit. and. his he suggesting that they're doing this because they're trying to track his sources because you know they feel that he's breached national security or is he suggesting that they're doing this because they're basically trying to intimidate him and shut him out. oh oh of course they're suggesting that his source at cia are it's our legislators who's jet least. by a leader you know national security protocols by turning over classified information to return. rice and i mean. reporters do this every day this is the very fundamental basis of what we just heard. this secret information about the power or about the government of corporations. we have the freedom of the press in going after rice and why it's goin

. >> jimmy: well, i love it and hopefully this is gonna be a "new york times" bestseller, as well.good for kids. >> thanks. but enough about that, come on, you know -- >> jimmy: let's start talking about drinking? >> yes. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: you -- you -- you -- that's the thing i love about you, i mean. it's the new kathie lee gifford, don't you think? >> oh, i've always been a drinker. >> jimmy: you always have? [ laughter ] >> yeah. yeah. no, you know what? we don't really drink on the show. you've been there. >> jimmy: yeah. >> we have -- we have it sitting there to make it seem like it's a party. >> jimmy: yeah. >> you know and it wasn't our fault. chelsea handler started the whole thing. she had a book out called "hello vodka, it's me, chelsea." >> jimmy: oh, yeah. >> so she came on our show. what was it, 10:15? our producers wanted to be friendly, so they gave her a whole bunch of cocktails and we all enjoyed ourselves. and the next thing you know, the producers are going, "this works. this is good, let's have a few cocktails." >> jimmy: but i think it's fun. i mean, it's

and star of "30 rock" and the author of "bossypants," which debuted at the top of "the new york times" bestsellerplause ] if that's not enough, she's hosting "saturday night live" this week. please welcome back to the show, our good pal, tina fey! ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: how are you, my pal? >> i'm good. how are you? >> jimmy: doing good. good to see you. thank you for being jersey-fied. >> oh, i loved it. that was super fun. >> jimmy: oh, you're awesome. i love -- you took a picture. you tweeted this out to your -- you emailed it to your husband. >> i don't tweet. [ laughter ] but i did. i sent that to my husband. he's like, "i like it." [ laughter ] he liked it. >> jimmy: he liked that look? >> he liked that look. amy kept saying that she looked like dog the bounty hunter's wife. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: she did a little bit. >> a little bit. >> jimmy: she looked like a wwe wrestler. the thing that made me laugh is that you put your hair in my mouth. and -- some of the grossest. i've never -- >> i know. it's a girl trying to be sexy. she knows something about hair -- hair is sexy. put

went to the top of the "new york times" bestseller book. you ask most people who he is and they don't know. anne colters' book very successful. this seems to be in the recent past. what is changing here? >> well, i do think that part of it is some publishers -- book publishers learned there's a huge conservative audience out there willing to buy books. i remember michael kinsley had this bemused or bewildered column saying conservatives read books, we didn't know that. so i think that's part of it. and i guess a generation has come along that is finding its voice, that is willing to say, you know, for years we have been the minority and not had our views adequately expressed in the media and so now we're going to take them on and we're going to tell it our way and it's getting a reception. it's an amazing thing that whenever you put on a conservative point of view on television, you get an immediate audience. there's a huge population out there in this country that is just hungry for the conservative perspective. brian lamb: why are conserv

conquerors, roosevelt truman and the destruction of hitler's germany were both on "the new york times" bestsellers list. his previous works include two volumes on lyndon johnson's secret tapes, the crisis years, kennedy and khrushchev and kennedy and roosevelt the uneasy alliance. he is currently writing his trip american presidents during wartime. i'm sure many of you also know mr. beschloss from his television work. he served as nbc news presidential historian on the "pbs newshour" and in 2000 by the one and emmy for his role in creating the discovery channel's decisions that shook the world of which he was a host. and last but certainly not least as professor susan is professorn dunn another protÉge colleague and friend. she is depressed in pairs third century professor of arts and humanities. most recently she has written roosevelt purge how fdr far to change the democratic party published in 2010 by harvard university's l press. roosevelts purge has received a henry adams prize awarded by the society for history in the federal government and was a finalist with "the los angeles times" but pri

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it's on "the new york times" bestsellers list where it's been for 14, 15, 19 weeks, a long time. and i'm really delighted that we have robert here to tell us even more. robert hearst. [applause] >> i have to turn myself on here, no pun. [laughter] thank you, susan, for that introduction. it always reminds me of the way mark twain said he was introduced out here in california 140 years ago. he was on one of his first lecture tours in california, never published a book. of course, nobody knew him. he was up in red dog, and no one even knew how to introduce him. but finally the crowd persuaded a slouching and awkward, big miner to get up on the stage and do the honors. he stood thinking a moment, mark twain says, and he said i don't know anything about this fellow. [laughter] rather, i only know two things. one is he hasn't been in the penitentiary. [laughter] and the other is i don't know why. [laughter] mark twain said he liked that because it was a compliment that didn't raise expectations too high. [laughter] payne, mark twain's official biographer, put that into the autobiograp

well, i talk a little bit about this in "meltdown" that was the "new york times" bestsellers two years ago. and a lot of this is in "roll back," but in "meltdown" i hope the roll of the interest rates. interest rates turn out to be the most interesting thing in the world because they play a coordinating function in the economy. you can't just intervene in the economy and say, i think interest rates should be even lower so let's do it and i bet there will be no consequences. no, haack who won the nobel peace prize in 198 but i know the nobel prize has been a bit poisoned in years but hayek's win of nobel prize but he won it for saying the exact opposite what the nobel team wanted him to say. this is a boom/bust cycles. the interest rates sets the economy on kind of a sugar high that it crashes from but hayek says interest rates are supposed to act as a break. they're supposed to be a break on our ambition. they're supposed to say, no, you are setting the economy on unsustainable path. we don't have the physical resources to complete all the projects we've embarked on so stop doing it bu

." >> we published eric's first book i believe it was early 2008 which was a new york times bestseller. in that book eric went around the world looking for the happiest places on earth. in this book eric begins with an ailment which later turned out to be indigestion caused by an unreasonable deadline imposed by an editor. nevertheless, when he's in the hospital it occurs to him when a doctor asks him if he'd found a faith that fit, he realized he hadn't. he covers religions we know well, he goes all the way to nepal and finds an american, he finds himself in vegas with a wild group who worship little green men. it's a very serious study about the role of faith in our lives, but it's also got eric's trademark wit and objective irony. >> and finally, cary goldstein of twelve, "time for outrage," up here on the wall. >> this is a really exciting book. this, this book is a phenomenon in europe. it was originally published as a 4,000-word pamphlet in october. it has since sold almost two million copies. we're calling it "time for outrage." it's by a 94-year-old former french resistance her

new york times," "the atlantic monthly" and "time" magazine. among her work examining the challenges of the american job market, is a bestselling 2001 book "nickeled and dimed: not getting by in america" and she op-eded several articles in the "new york times" including a column called "is it a crime to be poor: on the criminalization of homelessness in america." she's been a valuable partner of the law centers and we welcome her today as we present to you our final panel, voices of the streets. barbara. [applause] >> thank you very much, eric. and i'm really glad to be here. i should say something about how i owner got involved on the law center on homelessness and poverty. and that was what i was working on a series for the "new york times" on 2009, in 2009 and on the effect of the recession on people who were already poor, which is something that had not occurred to the "new york times." they were busy talking about, you know, people who had have to cut back on their personal pilates trainer because of the recession. and so that's what i was talking with other people at the center and said, well, you know, educate me more or less. and they did

bestselling novelist. your books are described as international best sellers not just "new york times" best sellers although the "new york times" has seen many of your books. but can you talk what you would want to write fiction as a lawyer and a very successful lawyer at that for many years and this is the kind of tail end of that. are you happy being a novelist and having given up those lawyers? >> i'm sick. i'm going back. [laughter] >> you know, there's people who suggest unkindly that the march from lawyer to fiction writer is a extremely short one -- [laughter] >> you know, i enjoyed my legal career a great deal, and i learned a lot from it. it was very useful as a lawyer. i learned interviewing skills. i learned more about linear thinking, which is plotting. i learned how to take a complex set of messy facts and make them coherent a narrative which might be persuasive to a judge or jury. i learned a lot about human psychology and your clients will tell you the damnest things. and so -- and i also learned to write. there's a theory that legal writing is nonsense with dependent clauses that will put yo