convention center and here on the book tv said we are pleased to be joined by two publishers, susan weinberg is the publisher of public affairs, and marji ross as president of regnery publishing. we wanted to talk about some of the books that they have coming up this season. suzanne weinberg, if we could start with don bartlett and jean steele's new book. >> the the trail of the american dream is a book is written by probably the premier team of investigative reporters in america today and barlett and stelle as they are known have among them to pulitzer prizes owls was national magazine awards, and they even have an award named after them that is given out in journalism today. they worked first of the philadelphia inquirer and then "time" magazine and now "vanity fair." they have been tracing the story since the 1980's, and they take the drumbeat of the economic news hearing, jobs, incomes, pensions, and they give you the context to put that news in so you don't see these stories as isolated events. you see them in the context of this happened in the economy and to the middle class over a lo

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