it is well known as a conservative political imprint but they avenue project called regnery history.t is this about? >> thank you for asking because we're very excited about launching a new line of books on history. military history and american history in particular. we publish history books in the past and have done the vocational history book but we realize it is a category our market is interested and we are publishing our books on the same schedule of current events. they were all most successful despite the best efforts. this time we say we will dedicate a team to put these on a timeline that makes sense. to give them all of the support to have ballets to get them in the hands of reviewers and frankly already it is successful because the first book out called but omar bradley has been picked up by the military book club and history book club but we see these will thrive and we are excited about that and a couple other books as well. >> host: what is a history and print book? >> won the we think will do very well is a book called a bully it is about teddy roosevelt but one of th

regnery publishing inc.s here as well, and with booktv to preview some of their fall 2011 book titles. we are joined by the publisher of regnery, marji ross. marji ross, i want to start with a book that you don't have out yet because you just signed a deal today. what is that teal? >> you are right. thank you, peter. well, the big news for regnery today at bea is that we just signed a big book with donald trump, and we're going to be doing a political book with him this fall. and we're really interested in doing this book because we feel that he touched a nerve with our marketplace and with a lot of people out there in america who said, gosh, he's saying a lot of things that i agree with. i kind of agree with what he has to say about oil and china and trade and taxes and the economy, and isn't it refreshing to have someone who's able to say these things and -- >> are you speaking of me? moi? ben franklin? >> that's ben franklin. >> everyone shows up at the bookstore. >> so we're very excited about the book,

he has a perfect combination of all those things. >> marji ross regnery, the publisher of regnery.they have a new projects coming up the call the regnery history. >> thank you for asking. we are very excited about launching and the bucks on history. military history and american history in particular. we published history books in the past and they have done quite well. we have done the occasional history book. we realize that this is a category that our market is very interested in and lights a lot. we were publishing our history works on the same sort of crash breakneck schedule that we were publishing our current event books on which was not serving the mall. almost successful despite our best efforts. so the sum of round with several dedicated team and put these books on the kind of time line that makes sense of that we can give them all of the support. the media will be allowed to let them have galleys and get them in the hands of reviewers long in advance and frankly already it is proving successful because our first book out which is called a omar bradley which is a biog

can we please get in applause for the latest author and regnery history? [applause] >> good day, sir. >> good day, dr. franklin, for you? >> i'm delighted to be here among a friendly audience also i would like to see them a little bit closer of here but can you all here okay? that's the question. good, good. let us begin sounding rivals come a very interesting title. of course i have had many rivals in my lifetime including i wouldn't want to mention john adams but perhaps we could and his rivalry. you know, you mentioned this founding a rivalry between james madison, the father of the constitution, and james monroe. now how is it that jr founding rivals rather than founding friends, weren't all the founders really supportive of this great country, this new nation we created? >> they were patriots to a person but for many of them the had different ideas of what looked like and what it meant to be true to the principles of the revolution and what it meant to be patriots and to be an american. so i think we have developed this assumption over time that the f

of the upcoming books from regnery publishing. >> thank you very much. .. this is another livingston lecture which is made possible through the generous support of the livingston foundation in atlanta and we are grateful to them for their continued support. our next livingston lecture will be held may 16th and will feature james b. stewart, author of tangled web of legal false statements undermining america from martha stewart to bernie madoff. seeing some of the previews of this book, you would be well advised to be here. it is fascinating. join us for a lecture featuring the best selling author of a double in the white city, erik larsen will be here discussing his new book in the garden of peace but a lovely girl terror and hitler's berlin. please turn off your cellphone and pagers and electronic devices that might disrupt our program. as a delta airlines flight attendant said turn off everything that doesn't keep you alive. david nichols is an expert on the eisenhower presidency and he will discuss eisenhower 1956, the brink of war. which was called one

published by regnery publishing. it is about an hour.ul c-span: mona charen, author of "useful idiots" -- why are conservatives so angry with liberals? c w> guest: there are many reasons.h s. i guess there is a lot of pent-up anger over many years that liberals have set the national agenda, have decided nyt liberals set the national agenda have decided what is news and what isn't and what is moral and what is not and conservatives who tended to be critical of liberals until recently didn't have a good outlet to criticize. things have changed enormously lately. brian lamb: what has changed lately? >> you have a flowering of different outlets. you have the internet, newspaper columns, radio, talk radio, news a conservative book publisher who knows how to reach that audience brian lamb: but the name for the book came from another book publisher, peter collier? >> that's true. peter collier is a friend. he came up with the title. the words, useful idiots, may seem excessively cruel to some, but they're the words of vladi