in the mid '80s and taken over by al regnery, um, and in those early years regnery published some of the seminal works of conservative book publishing, many of which i'm sure you know and i hope you've read including william f. buckley's "god and man at yale," russ l kirk's "the conservative mind." in 1993 regnery was acquired by eagle publishing, and since then the regnery/eagle team has built on regnery's tremendous foundation to become a powerhouse of conservative political best zellers. -- bestsellers. i joined the company in 1999, and in the past dozen years we've published a lot of bestsellers, as you've heard, but i'll tell you whom we've published. we've published most of the most influential conservative writers in the country. we've published ann coulter, michelle malkin, mark levin, mark stein, david limbaugh, dinesh d'souza, laura ingraham, ted nugent and, of course, william f. buckley jr. to name just a few. we've also published many of the most thoughtful and articulate conservative politicians of the last decade including newt gingrich, bobby jindal, mitt romney, mike

in 199 be regnery was acquired by eagle publishing, and since then the regnery/eagle team has built on regnery's tremendous foundation to become a powerhouse of conservative political bestsellers. i joined the company in 1999, and in the past dozen years we've published a lot of bestsellers as you heard, but i'll tell you whom we've published. we've published most of the most influential conservative writers in the country, ann coulter, michelle malkin, mark stein, david limbaugh, laura ingraham, ted nugent and, of course, william f. buckley jr. to name just a few. we've also published many of the most thoughtful and articulate conservative politicians of the last decade including newt gingrich, bobby jindal, mitt romney, mike lee, denny hastert, george allen, j.d. hayworth and many more. and, of course, i can't forget a handful of books which arguably changed the course of history regnery published. i'm thinking of bernie goldberg's bias, and john o'neill's "unfit for command," which arguably changed the course of an election. and all of which, bethe way, were number one on "the new y

in the mid-80s and taken over by al regnery and in those early years, regnery publish some of the sum all -- seminal work of book publishing, many of which i'm sure you know and i hope you have read including william f. buckley's god and men at yale and whittaker chambers witness, russell kirk the conservative mind. in 1993, regnery was acquired by eagle publishing and since then the regnery eagle team has built on regnery's tremendous foundation to become a powerhouse of conservative political bestsellers. i joined the company in 1999 and in the past dozen years, we have published a lot of bestsellers as you have heard, but i will tell you home we have published. we have published most of the influential conservative writers in the country. we published ann coulter, michelle milken, mark levin, mark steyn, an aashto souza, lauren graham, david horowitz, ted nugent and of course william f. buckley jr. to name just a few. we have also published many of the most thoughtful and articulate conservative politicians of the last decade including newt gingrich, bobby jindal, mitt romney, mike

a good regnery published book?>> it's hard work. and it takes a lot longer and a lot more work than you think, so that is the first thing to recognize, but it doesn't mean you should write a book and obviously plenty of people do. there are about 300,000 new books published every year. so, yes, so that is sobering statistic. but i tell people that the things we look for and the things that make regnery books successful, including and maybe especially with first-time authors, we look for authors who are passionate, so make sure you are passionate about your subject. we look for people who are in a mission, on a crusade whose goal is not necessarily how many books of my going to sell but how many people am i going to reach with my message and of course we do that by selling a lot of looks. you do that by getting your message out on tv and radio and how they all get their message out. for people who are passionate, who are crusaders for their message, who are expert in something, i think there is an opportunity to be

person outside of the regnery family ever to hold that

actually published by regnery books. so we'll have copies of those during the lunch outside, and i hope you all can stay and join us and continue the conversation with marji ross. so thank you very much for coming today. >> thank you. >> and for co-hosting today. thank you so much. police departments. [inaudible conversations] .. >> trips i took as a child -- [inaudible] starting out in their careers when i was a young child, and took me to england and to africa, and to a number of different towns where they were starting in their first jobs. and then the many trips we took after my parents got divorced, when my brother and i went with our mother, had to move back and across the country. we were in los angeles when they split up, into the east coast. and traveled to many new homes, often new places where i didn't know anybody. as she struggled to get her life back on track, after my parents broke up. but it's also a reference, sort of a metaphorical reference to the trip that i took in reporting and writing this book, wh

[applause] >> for more information visit the publisher's web site, regnery.com/regnery history. >> we'd like to hear from you. tweet us your feedback, twitter.com/booktv. >> and now on booktv, lori sandell recounts the fallout from bernie madoff's ponzi scheme and the effect it had on his family. the author was given access to all members of the madoff family and reports how mr. madoff's two sons -- andrew and mark and his wife ruth -- react today bernie madoff's illegal activities. this is about half an hour. .. victims, we started seeing what happened to some of the people who invested with the madoffs. i started -- no shakespeare has done this. this is only shakespeare could write this. well, now, sometime later, three years later, here we are, and i came across a book, and i want to say that it's utterly fascinating. we thought we knew everything, but we didn't, and just reading about the family and finding out that, even though bernie madoff is kind of absent from the book because you didn't interview him, but at least i as the reader, i would say, i realize this man was bully, and

regnery came to me, i wrote the book, and then joni became my agent.nd the line on bestsellers is you don't make money on your first bestseller, you make money on the advance to the next book. whether it sells or not, you always get an advance. well, not if you're a conservative author. that's what happened to me. i had a publisher for slander, harpercollins, robert jones, to whom he was my specific editor. he had been calling joni, my agent. i really want ann coulter's next book. he was a convert to conservativism, he said he's tried every kind of radical behavior. [laughter] and he finally realized being in the publishing industry in new york city to be a real radical you had to be a conservative. anyway, he was my beloved editor. he never actually read "slander" because he died right before i was going to send him the manuscript. that's why the book is dedicated to him. harpercollins instantly killed "slander," and poor joni, bless her heart -- and she was a very powerful publishing agent with william morris, she couldn't get any other publisher to

as you were talking i was reminded that regnery published a monograph. is an annotated bibliography of conservative bestsellers and really important conservative books and i would venture that publicly the majority of the titles were actually published by regnery's books so we will have copies of those during the lunch outside and i hope you all can stay and join us and continue the conversation with marji ross. thank you so much for coming today. thanks for claire boothe luce foundation today. >> thank you. [applause]