the one i want to buy is the one with my name, stacy schiff. not the other one. publication date is november 1. let me go back to the line of dialogue and plutark. it comes to the marvelous account of cleopatra and marc anthony out fishing. he uses it to call anthony's boyish pranks. the most accomplished military commander of his day, he's unable to lure a single fish from the fertile waters of egypt. humiliated, it's worse when have your girlfriend, and even more when she's the queen, she arranged to have several precaught fish. he begins to reel in one after the other. the scam is not lost. she's competitive by nature. she has a very good sense of humor. she arranges for all of their friends to come watch her highly skilled roman friend the next day when she also arranged for one of her servants to attach an imperted salted hearing to their hook. this he adds to the water. on the spot, she adviced him to forget about fishing and attend to his real responsibility. he's meant to be hunting, not for fish, but for cities, kingdoms, and continent. of she's sly and

here's stacy schiff just being introduced talking about her book cleopatra.[applause] >> thank you for turning out. i suspect you are all melts out there. because i'm melting up here. if you referred from the remarks that i have no life of my own, you are correct. but i have been through this biography business a few times. and i have the follow observation to offer. no matter how wisely, how carefully you choose your subjects, you wind up with one of two problems. you either have the needle in the hay stack problem as i did when i started out on the life of mrs. lobocof, the wife of the writer, the woman that was private, stoic, selfless, formal, all qualities that make for a lousy book. nothing can be worse. so i went on to write a book about benjamin franklin's documented years in france. therefore curing the hay stack in the hay stack problem. nothing can be worse. for those eight years that he spends in france, the eight years of the american revolution and the peace that follows. the documentation here in america is two and a half times as great as it i