Quickly changed when i started learning all the facts. But i have the utmost respect for her. She was a strong woman in a tiny place and where was not okay to be a strong woman and i really think that she embodied a lot of the concepts that women face when they are trying to be ambitious in a place that wont let them express themselves and tries to put them down. So i have a lot of respect for her. And not only she had not only sprung detractors in the early 60s but a couple of people who really thought that she was a much more complex person and wanted to write about her were also women. You talk about marguerite higgins. Marguerite higgins and Clare Boothe Luce were big advocates of madame nhu. Its interesting i think we are living in a time where we see more interesting biographies written about clinical figures and particularly from asia that we have seen. It there was a really interesting biography last year of written by a woman and it seems like there is a different generation of women who have come of age after feminism offering interesting views on feminism that would have been available 30 or 40 years ago and its wonderful and i think its a very terrific. Im happy to have been able to read it and does anyone have any questions from the audience . I think we have a mic. Hi. You talked a little bit about how madame nhus recollections might have been colored by her trauma that she experienced and i wondered how you dealt with the unreliability of the source while you were working on this project . Thats a question. Madame nhu was an unreliable narrator and in writing my book i chose sort of the unorthodox path of putting myself in the book because i wanted to be someone who could see both sides. I did the research in the archives in france and to the research and the materials in United States and i think there are no real objective views of madame nhu. The book was written about her in the 60s and it was also slanted by the mostly white male reporters who were writing about her. So from both of the sites i had to kind of navigate okay what is true and what is false and in her memoirs that she wrote where she is the center of the universe obviously that wasnt going to be much help to me but what was was finding out what kind of shoes she was wearing the Little Details that were factual that i wasnt going to get anyplace else that you are right that is a really tricky thing and i try to be as honest as i can in the book about walking that fine line between believing what she says and also making sure its factually correct. The photographs and i mentioned this earlier are quite incredible. I noticed a couple of them came from your own collection. Did she give you those photographs . Those were part of the memoirs to be published. Okay ,com,com ma okay. Sir do you have a question . First off thanks a lot for very creative work. My question though im curious about what you think how the press as you mentioned how the vietnamese press was under the palm of the u. S. Government. How much better to the American Press do because you must have read a lot of articles and watched a lot of newsclips. The u. S. Media did they build her up or demonize her or trivialize her or how did the u. S. Press do . Such a good question. The u. S. Press, i think if you read the accounts of helper sam and sheehan and Malcolm Brown who were there in the early days they tend to have really believed that the United States was doing the right thing by being in vietnam. This was a country that needed to be saved and they dominos were very real and they were really falling so they were really sort of patriotically behind the United States involvement in South Vietnam. But because of that madame nhu and her family were really a stumbling block. They were things up right and left in these reporters could see it and no one else was talking about it. So they were advocates for i dont want to say the replicas for regime change but they were advocates for getting america more involved in South Vietnam reporting the facts as they saw them which was hard to do in that context. I dont think they built madame nhu up. I dont really think that they liked her very much. We should point out too that she read them religiously and theres a point in the book where you tell her that David Halberstam has just been killed in a car accident. He was in a car accident 2008 or Something Like that and you tell her, you break that news to her and she seems kind of saddened by it. It was a personal friend of hers someone she had known well. He said something about her like she was the only one in the family who needed how to do a parade. She raised her hand like mussolini. He said these things that in any other reading would be not complements but she was like a oh i remember him. He was a good reporter and he always told the truth. [laughter] one that note i i think we are about out of time. I want to thank you very much. [applause] outside the books are for sale. We hope you will pick up a copy. Thank you. Thank you everybody for attending and thanks to mr. Banks and ms. Demery. Copies of finding the dragon lady are on sale now and ms. Demery will be signing books just outside of the auditorium. Thanks everyone. Enjoy the lit fest. [inaudible conversations] up tv is in new york city at the publishers annual trade show held at the Javits Center in new york city and we are joined now by jake mcfeely who is the publisher of w. W. Norton. Mr. Mcfeely we are doing a preview of some of the books coming out in the fall. What are some of the big looks that norton has comingout . We are excited to be here at expo america and things are going very well. Big bucks for the fall probably one of the most interesting is diane ackermans the human age. Diane one of our best writers about nature did a book called the Natural History of the senses. It was a huge success. A book called the zookeepers webb also an enormous success. The human age, human have subdued 755 landmass in the world. Diane is here to tell us about that in some of the ways in which this is not entirely a bad thing. A wonderful book. Thats quite a cover on that book. Thank you. It took a little while to get that together and its certainly going to be lively and bookstores. No the book that norton has comingout is about the bill. Jonathan, the birth of the pill. The story of how four people came together to develop the pill and put it on the market. How many books does martin published each year . Norton publishes in the trade department about 150 new titles each year. And that makes you one of the big six . We are the biggest independent Employee Owned publisher in the country. Who is Nicholas Carr . One of the greatest of servers of technology. He has got a new book coming in the fall called the glass cage looking at technology is not altogether good thing and nick is wonderfully perceptive about how its changing our world and our lives. Mr. Mcfeely when did you begin in publishing and why . Oh boyd i not sure i want to say peter. 38 years ago and it was bright at w. W. Norton company. I made my entire career with norton. How did you get into at . I advise loved books. I have a fathers is a story and in the mother was a librarian and everybody i thought it was natural that they get into the book business. What other book you want to tell us about . I would like to tell you about david greens midnight in siberia. David former npr Moscow Bureau chief finished up his term there and took the Transsiberian Railroad out to blat a foster as a chance to meet ordinary russians and to report on what russia was like in the postsoviet era. I would like to mention john winchesters how to speak money. A wonderful model is that when he is not writing novels hes interesting about capitalism, money and this is going to be a lively account of capitalism. We have been talking here on booktv with Drake Mcfeely the publisher of w. W. Norton company. Thank you sir. Thank you. Hillary clintons latest book hard choices. Recently booktv was in new york at the book Book Publishers offices to talk with some of the people involved in the production of the book. Ive been totally involved in this world of books actually. I am not the one publishing, the official publisher of the current book but ive been involved in the process all along. Way back when chu is in the white house when we first went down there to persuade her to publish a book which became it takes a village her first book you know i was there trying to help convince her to do so and ive been involved in every single one of her publications. I am not the editor because thats not my core strength. But i watch over the publication and i help get it all organized and make sure things are on track. It started also with living history but in this case making sure that all of our best people are working on it. We are publishing hard choices in june 10. Its her fourth book with us and i was the editor of the book so i was involved from the very beginning of its acquisition and overseeing all aspects of it, working very closely with all the people at the company. As the editor is there a lot of emails back and forth between you and the author . Is that how its done at . You know every case is different. And in this case i tried to give just as much attention to secretary clintons book as i have two all the other authors republish. I should mention the same breath we are also publishing james webb who is a triptych United States senator and whose book is out right now so i dont want to favor one author over another. When we acquired that book Jonathan Karp came here and asked if there was anything that we could do for the book specifically and we brainstorm some ideas and talked about when the right time to act on those ideas might be. We have thinking of that also is a Digital Product from the very beginning. My role is to liaise with the National Media in partnership with the Communications Team who works with hillary. What is an effective been a campaign . Whered where do you go . It depends on where the book is and it depends on what the potential for book is. There is what i like to think of as topdown campaigns which are campaigns like Hillary Clintons which deal with national and breakout from there. Its generally a number of things that will create themselves. My role with the clinton title has been to work on the marketing side of that which has involved a web site for the book dedicated to the book, a facebook page, the production of promotional videos the release of content on the web. My role up until now has been very much the Digital Marketing role in this particular title and its been a fun one because so many people are watching and so many people care. We toil away to make a lot of videos of writers but we dont have many that go up on the homepage of aol or that yahoo picks up instantly and puts on a major page. That part has been really fun. Watch for Hillary Clinton to appear on booktv soon to discuss her latest book hard choices. In her new book hard choices released this past tuesday Hillary Clinton recounts her tenure as secretary of state she spoke with one of her former speechwriters who is now the coowner of politics and prose bookstore in washington d. C. Their conversation took place at George Washington university which is also in the nations capital. Our guest of honor is known primarily of course for her political roles as first lady, u. S. Senator from new york and the 67th secretary of state but she has also just published her fifth book and has several previous bestsellers to her name so added to the list of credits after Hillary Rodham clinton should certainly be accomplished author. Hard choices her memoir about her for years as secretary of state recounts how she came to accept the cabinet position offered by her former political rival and then let the effort to strengthen our nations standing around the world. The book also reveals some of the less wonkish less battlehardened side of her not commonly cleansed in public. Humorous, selfdeprecating, maternal, maybe even grant maternal almost. Although hillary credits a small team of people for helping with the book she carved out months out of her calendar to write and rewrite it herself and the result is a work that is undeniably in her voice. It also clearly leaves room for future chapters in one more memoir someday. [applause] this evenings event is particularly special, particularly special for me because i not only get to introduce the main speaker but also my wife who will be up here in conversation with hillary. The two of them go back together to the early days of the Clinton Administration and lissa has since served with hillary in garys roles as white house and state department speechwriter, Communications Director to the First Lady Campaign adviser and collaborator on hillarys white house memoir living history. These days when hillary and lissa talk i think they spend most of their time discussing the latest great novel, mystery or biography that they are reading. Ladies and gentlemen please join me in welcoming Hillary Rodham clinton and lissa muscatine. [applause] thank you. [laughter] [applause] thank you so much. [applause] well that was very nice. It is great to have you. Thank you so much. Thank you and thanks to you and brad for running such a great bookstore politics and prose. [applause] speaking of books you have had it out for four days now. Thats right. You probably lost count visit was probably one of these paces more like when you were secretary. You are traveling all over the place and doing all these interviews. You are keeping a pretty frenetic pace but i have to ask you the first time i read this book it and ive read it several times i was struck by a lightheartedness. Its a serious book that deals with serious issues but there is a lighter side that comes through. So im wondering as ive watched you in these first four days and you have had some tough interviews you seem like you are having a really good time. Lissa i am having a good time and i think that is in part due to the enthusiasm that i have experienced as i traveled around in these last couple of days. Its a great feeling to have written a book about four years that were consequential in my view and we can talk about that more but which for me were both a personal journey and a very heavy responsibility. What i tried tdo