. >> sylvia jukes morris recounts the late of the late conservative commonitator clare boothe luce who was elected to congress in 1942. this program last about an hour. >> i am the senior >>> i am the senior director of the program and chief operating officer here at roosevelt house. it is my great pleasure to welcome you to "price of fame: the honorable clare boothe luce" by sylvia jukes morris. price of fame is the second in her masterful volume on clare boothe luce was published 17 years ago. and both books are models of her art. researched and sophisticated and fair minded and compulsively readable. we are gathered in the former home of franklin and elenor roosevelt where i think it is safe to assume clare boothe luce wasn't a social visitor. her relationship with the roosevelts was what one might say complicated. she supported fdr earlier on but soon became one of his most outspoken critics and once accusing him of being the only american president who lied us into a war because he didn't have the nerve to lead us into it. he was in competition with ms. roosevelt for most poplar w

>>> sylvia jukes morris recounts the life of the late conservative commentator and congresswoman clare boothe luce. the author reports on luc's tenure as board to italy and her political and personal life. this program lasts about an hour. [inaudible conversations] >> i am the senior director of programs and chief operating officer here at roosevelt house, and it is my great pleasure to welcome you here to tonight's very special discussion of "price of fame: the honorable clare boothe luce," by sylvia jukes morris. "price of fame" is the second in a two-volume biography of ms. luce. the first volume was published 17 years ago, and as "the wall street journal" has written, both books are really models of a biographer's art, meticulously researched, sophisticated, fair-minded and compulsively readable. now, we are, of course, gathered for tonight's discussion here in the former home of franklin and eleanor roosevelt where i think it is probably safe to assume that clare boothe luce was not a regular social visitor. [laughter] mrs. luce's relationship with the roosevelts was, one might sa

at 8:30, sylvia jukes morris describes the life of clare boothe luce. then michael lewis talks about flash boys at 10 p.m. eastern, and we wrap up at 11 with the authors of "obama's enforcer: eric holder's justice department." that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> next on booktv, an interview from pepperdine university in malibu, california, part of booktv's college series. bruce herschensohn sat down with booktv to talk about his long political career and american foreign policy over the past half century. professor herschensohn also provided his take on president obama's foreign policy issues over the past five years. this is about 45 minutes. >> host: well, joining us now on booktv is bruce herschensohn, a professor here at pepperdine university. professor herschensohn, how long have you taught here, and what do you teach? >> guest: i teach u.s. foreign policy and started teaching here in the beginning of 1998. really when the school of public policy opened up for students. before that i sort of had an affiliation with pepperdine since the