it is my considerable pleasure to introduce to you susan ronald. [applause] >> thank you everybody. i just hope our technical problems are at an end . you may see these little steps there on the bottom. i've decided to write about conde nast really because i tend to write about power and greed. all the people i've written about before, there's another book which isn't on here, have been powerful people. some of them have been greedy. almost all of them have had some sort of brush with the law but after a dangerous woman, about florence wolf who was married to that youngest sonof jay gould as many of you will certainly know of , i decided that having written about someone who was incredibly powerful, incredibly devious and also the banker to herman goering by the end of the war and never ever was tried for her dastardly deeds, i needed to cleanse myself. i wanted to write about a really good person so i told this to my agent and my publisher and they just kind of looked blankly at me and they said you write about power and greed, how could you write about a nice person , it was my ag

it is my considerable pleasure to introduce to you susan rona ronald. [applause] >> thank you everybody. i hope that our technical problems are at an end. you may see this new little dots on the bottom and i decided to write about condÉ nast the because i tend to write about power and greed. all of the people i've written about before there is another book which is not on here but happened have been greedy and they been powerful and almost all of them have had some sort of a brush with the law but after a dangerous woman about florence gould married to the t youngest son of jay gould, many of you who know of, i decided having written about someone who is incredibly powerful, incredibly devious and also the banker to herman goering by the end of the war and never ever was tried for her dastardly deeds i needed to cleanse myself and i wanted to write about the really good person so i told this to my agent and my publisher and they looked blankly at me and said you write about power and greed so how could you write about a nice person but it was my agent w

some of the programs include historian susan ronald on the life of publishing magnet conÉe nast his magazineempire included vogue and vanity fair. new york times columnist argues there is a rising anti-semitism in america. investigative reporter discusses the production and distribution of fentanyl and journalist eleanor randolph talks about new york city mayor and democratic president of candidate michael bloomberg. find the complete schedule in your program guide or online, booktv.org. now we kick off new year's day with historians rick atkinson and brenda windapple. .. >> rick atkinson and brenda wineapple, let's give them a round of applause. [applause] rick is the best-selling author of the liberation trilogy, an army at dawn come when of the pulitzer prize. the day

ronald reagan with iran/contra. i won't put executive privilege, let everybody speak and then let it get really messy. that's the play. >> i do think, shauna, that susanhe's a vote. >> i think so. because she has the memes around her as well. she has a hard race. >> it's hard to imagine that lisa murkowski doesn't vote with her at this point. >> and also lisa murkowski has a much more independent streak than collins does. it's been played out over elections and everything else. >> you're krowski drop the mic. >> those are always the three, mitt romney we don't always talk about with those two, but those are the people we have been talking about. find me the fourth that fall in line behind mitch mcconnell. >> you have pat toomey talking about one for one. joe manchin talking about yeah, hunter biden is relevant. do you think in general the bidens have handled this correctly? >> well, last week in this chair, i threw out the notion that joe biden should say i'll show up in the senate floor if bollton and mulvaney show up. i think the equation has changed now because of the revelation about the manuscript and i believe bolton really does want to testify,

susan collins and lisa murkowski. they used establishment republicans to rebut donald trump and to rebut giuliani. they had like christopher wrey, tom bosart. they had ronaldting there with margaret thatcher between establishment republicans, whose side are you on. their side or the side of giuliani. i thaought it was an interestin way they drew these comparison. i think for these establish m republic republicans it's a question, do you want to be with rudy giuliani. >> if john bolton wants to speak, he can speak. >> he can come on cnn and speak for two or three hours. >> he can write an op-ed. there's an ease way for him to get his information out. >> this argument from the white house, don't vote for new witnesses or documents because we're going to be fighting this in court. we're going to be claiming executive privilege and you'll have months long legal battle on your hands and stretch impeachment out much longer than you wanted. >> the senate should really be offended by that argument because it's so interesting. jamie, you might be right that the votes are there and they're not going to vote for the witnesses but the fact the president is reportedly

this book is for sale and susan ronald is happy to autograph it and join us for the glass of wine and i'm sure susan will answer more questions. thank you for coming this evening. [applause] >> booktv continues on c-span2, television for serious readers. >> booktv recently went to capitol hill to find out what books are on the reading lists of members of congress. >> what are you reading? >> it is too big to say. i'm in the process of five different books. i pretty much finished one of them. the latest one, "grant" by ron chernow. you talk about what informs my work in congress. it is vitally important to understand our nation's history, to understand both the victories and the challenges we have faced in the past so we could make better informed decisions and i love as a military guy looking back at conflict and what led us into those conflicts and how we came out of this conflict a stronger nation. "grant" is one of those books. as i read and learned the role my state of ohio played in the civil war and holding our union together, grant, lincoln had three prominent ohioans that enci