Recently book tv attended a party. Of the book publisher. The author and political commentator and several others. Thank you for coming to celebrate. It is gorgeous. Enjoy all of it. You will have a few of those. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] there we go. Pink you. Okay good. Very good. I figured out [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] allwhite we have our props man. All right. Thank you. Thats so fun. Nice to meet you. You are very welcome. You definitely should see that. We are going to do that kind of program. Thank you. [inaudible conversations] [indiscernible] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] okay. Got it. [inaudible conversations] we are very lucky. [inaudible conversations]. Ill look. How are you. Very nice to see you. Enjoy, celebrate. Excellent. Glad to have you here. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] all right. He may not had done that. Hes definitely here. That would be fun. Right there. You probably had that. [inaudible conversations] definitely. [inaudible conversations] you are a big part of that. Thank you so much im glad youre here. Good. Nice to see you. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] do a little remarks on the roof play a video. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] thank you. Thats great. We will put you to work. [inaudible conversations] i think it has to be a real potential. Traveling to all of the un conferences. Thats a good point. Extreme weather. Thank you. Its a good thing. Im giving a little talk. Upstairs in about ten minutes. Im starting to have up there. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i am so glad. We did it i got so much good feedback. I grew up with the New York Times as you did. [inaudible conversations]. You are all set. So beautiful. If you go to where the red carpet is you will see the room. [inaudible conversations] thats it. A wonderful thought. Its an amazing book. I had been reading [inaudible conversations] probably five minutes from now. Hi. Thank you very much. A fun excuse to get all of the step to the party. Government dont reveal anything in your book because its all topsecret. In your brandnew book that is coming very soon. [inaudible conversations] i know you have some great ideas. Five years ago we all talked about it. We finally have something that we can do. We now had our own sales force dedicated to that. Going through a lot of gift accounts. And what we found out romance and crap. They are really catering. In the areas. The have a heavy military population. Thats what were starting to do now that we have our own sales force. Thank you. This is a wonderful event. Is it fun. Thank you. [inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen if you can join me here come to me ladies and gentlemen. You see the accent would be alert. Leave them alone for just a second. If they hold them from the front. First things first ladies and gentlemen if you had checked your car and with the valley from the business Business Roundtable the valley well close at 730. Dont worry the program is very short so you can run down there after that. For maladies are over. They are coming to a neighborhood near you. There you go. We are delighted to have you all here with us. We say thank you on behalf of all of the magnificent people in the publishing were gonna start the proceedings with a very short video here tonight and then i will come back and introduce you to your main speaker. Its very short and informative video. Everybody at wrigley should have a feeling. George w bush who featured everybodys name. It is so famous now that Everybody Knows how to pronounce it. A unique long voice publishing on almost no one was willing to do it. It was like talk radio. We spoke to the forgotten men and women in this country. They hunger for the truth and they are not getting it. They have a passion for the subject is faster, its smarter. And what you are able to show is that there is a market for smart well written intelligent books that advance conservative ideas that a lot of the big publishers would not touch. It knows has to be done and knows that the fight itself and the substance would get the audience. Its hopeless. How old were you then many of the most important books in the history of the movement. They just know what America Needs right now. There is a hunger that is generally speaking. Ed klein you guys cannot afford that. I feel especially proud for both calista and i and we had been able to publish with authors. I think it would look Something Like this. It is the one to punch that has changed american politics. I think they understand their audience during the bush reelection in the 2017 race. Theyve always been relevant and on target. Its just terrible. Who cares. Margie ross. How does one describe that. I love Margie Margie is the best. It is a force of nature. You may already know that. I have a lot of those stories. They know how to go about getting what they want. At the saint regis hotel. So lonely here. And in between the gun done racks. You are a gem. And she has never published one of mine. Seriously you had played a very integral part in america getting news and information to people that desperately needed. The whole crew happy 70th birthday. Just keep on doing what you do. Happy 70th birthday and i hope you get at least 70 more as you keep making all the trouble that you can. Happy 70th birthday. America needs you more now than ever. We are very proud of you. And to be able to partner with you all these years is in a privilege and a pleasure. I think we will have a tremendous opportunity in the next few years to publish a lot of great conservative books. Happy 70th. Look this way. Again the editor of breitbart. Im grateful to be here. Little known fact about dr. Sebastian gorka, he loves the sound of his own voice so much that if you speak in a higher register, he cant hear you. [laughter] isnt that true, sam . I think hes here somewhere. I hope hes here somewhere. [laughter] lets see. I also wanted to ask seb, actually, is Anthony Scaramucci here . Did he make it . Did he leave the office for longer than 15 minutes . Harry crocker, the executive editor of regnery, around here somewhere too. 70 years, regnery has been around. Which means that when regnery started, harry was in his late 40s. [laughter] absolutely fantastic. There arent very many Great Companies left in the United States and, indeed, in the world that take principled standses like regnery stances like regnery. When they had the deal with the fake news New York Times sham of a bestseller list do i sound bitter . [laughter] sorry about that. But its a genuine pleasure of mine now to be able to introduce to you dont worry, margie, no jocks, no jokes at your experience. After all who could say anything bad about marji ross . Dont raise your hands, its rude. [laughter] ladies and gentlemen, the president and publisher of regnery publishing, marji ross [cheers and applause] thank you. Thank you. Great to see you. My glasses, i can see you much better. Thank you all. So i have a rule about parties, and its Pretty Simple really. If you know youre going to get up in front of a big group of people to give a a speech, you dont have a drink until after you give your speech. [laughter] ive shared this with many people, but i dont know if ive already told the story of how i learned this unfortunate lesson. [laughter] because i did, i did learn it the hard way. [laughter] it was about 15 years ago, and kate toe burns was hosting a book party for rich lowry, and he had just published. I had just been named president and publisher, so i arrived at cato burns house, and i was chatting with the other guests and i had a glass of wine or two [laughter] and then kate called everyone together, and she welcomed her guests, and she gave a few remarks, and then i thought she was going to introduce rich, and instead she introduced me. So i kind of walked up to the front of the room, pasted on a smile, and i honestly have no idea what i said. [laughter] i have no idea. I mumbled something about books and publishing, and i was kind of in a fog. So at some point i realized that all the people there were really waiting to hear from the author, so i said i cleared my voice, cleared my throat and i said, okay, without further ado id like to welcome, introduce to you the newest regnery author, rob lowe. [laughter] and, right. And, you know, the fact that rob lowe, rich lowry, had the same initials [laughter] not really a good excuse. [inaudible] [laughter] i probably was, thank you. But the valuable lesson was learned, no drinking before speaking. So youll be happy to know and people will vouch that i have not had any wine or champagne yet, right . Champagnes coming. Well have a Champagne Toast in a minute or two. But first, id just like to thank you all so much for joining us to celebrate 70 years of publishing great conservative authors. [applause] really all of us at regnery are honored by your presence, humbled by the responsibility that we share with you to do what we can to make america a better place, to explain and debate the important issues of the day, to champion liberty and free speech and to continue the legacy that Henry Regnery started 70 years ago. Now, as im sure most of you know, regnery launched many superstar conservative authors starting with william f. Buckley and russell kirk, extending to many of our favorites today whether thats ann coulter, David Limbaugh, michelle malkin, mark steyn, sebastian gorka, many, many more. We now publish 50 books a year including current events, political thought, history, faith, fiction, even kids books. We have several of the, of our wonderful authors here tonight including ann coulter and David Limbaugh and sebastian gorka, rahimkassan. Thank you very much. Also want to give a special welcome to several other regnery authors who are here. Second lady karen pence is here, shes a newlysigned regnery author. Ed klein is here, thank you, ed. Multiple best selling books. David horowitz is here. I think Congressman Ken Buck is joining us. James rosen, emily miller, jeffrey lord, there are many, many wonderful friends here. I also want to say a special thank you and welcome to al regnery whos here and has guided regnery [applause] for so many years before entrusting it to me. Thank you as so much. And also a special welcome to a lot of our salem colleagues who are here, john, jonathan, some friends from wava, don crowe and tom moyer and, of course, hugh hewitt joins us as well. And a very important thank you to three ladies who helped make this evening as wonderful and special as it is. Karen woodard who helped with all the catering, communication [cheers and applause] and for all the fun, the video, the costumes, the picture booth, the everything but, basically everything but, you have to thank nicole and alyssa. [cheers and applause] well, i could go on, but the other lesson i learned 15 years ago was to not stand between a crowd and a glass of champagne. So thank you all once again very much more your friendship, for your support, and i think ill hand the mic back to rahim for a toast. Thank you. [applause] thank you. [inaudible conversations] thank you. Look at all these things i have to hold. Okay. I know which one is the important one. Thats the book, big League Donald Trump [inaudible] what is it, rob lowe . No, rob long. [laughter] thatll be in your gift bag, so make sure to pick up one of your gift bags. It is genuinely hilarious, and the fact that the new yorker magazine went apoplectic about it today proves to you its fantastic. What did they say . They said its an insult to poetry. [laughter] i cant think of a better endorsement. Marji, you better put that on the back of the book. The champagne is being passed around now. Make sure you grab one of your glasses. I also wanted to say its fantastic that we have members of congress joining us here today. What a job theyre doing. I mean, what job are they doing. [laughter] [inaudible] its an absolute pleasure to introduce you to the somebody who ive followed for a very long time, actually somebody who really brought me into the conservative sphere but also tried to stop me getting into this event. Shes so diligent in her commitment to enforcing your border rules that she asked me to see my visa as i was walking in the building [laughter] ladies and gentlemen, best selling author, conservative commentator, beautiful woman and all around amazing person, ann coulter. [cheers and applause] [inaudible] apropos of the last book i wrote for regnery, awed gross america, i was waiting for my uber drive, and now im really angry about immigration. [laughter] im not going to [inaudible] making fun of liberals, so i was looking at some of the questions they were going to ask me. And the one thing i would like to say about marji ross is when we were promoting adios america, as all of you know from watching the Trump Campaign if you think americas light on immigration the world will blow up, and i was out in l. A. , the Nixon Library canceled on me. I dont know if you know, it used to be a fantastic library. Now its run by the government, so its the antiNixon Library. And i found out early one saturday morning in the middle of the summer, called marji ross on her cell phone, and instantly you picked up. Instantly. That was so wonderful. You really are a wonderful editor, always available on her cell phone. And as for regnery and i know we do have to get to our champagne, but i did want to go back to my first book with regnery and my first book, as a matter of fact, from the clinton era, distinguishing characteristic. The distinguishing characteristic of regnery has always been famously [laughter] that authors would take fantastic books, no new york publisher would publish them. Regnery would publish them, and they would become massive bestsellers. One of which, my favorite of that, of that trend is leo demores senatorial privilege of senator kennedy and having drowned that girl. And its the truth about chappaquiddick. He was ticked off at kennedy saying to him after, you know, swimming out of the river, oh, could you say you were driving . [laughter] so years later leo [inaudible] all on the record. No new york publisher would publish it. Regnery publishes it, 27 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. More recently, there was a patriotic book flags of our fathers. 27 new york plushers turned it own publishers turned it down, regnery published it, 44 weeks on bestseller list. The way things are going in the trump era, i dont know if any of you are still reading the treason times [laughter] but its every day about i somehow some sad little Facebook Page that they think russia was behind may have swung the whole election. [laughter] if you visited america in 2016, you would notice outside of the major cities you couldnt drive a mile without seeing a 6foottall trump sign. But im sure it was that little Facebook Page. [laughter] in any event, they really have become more hysterical than ive ever seen them. I have lived through the mccarthy era, the nixon era, and i think this is worse that even that. If they do get control of the internet, we could be right back to regnery being the only source, the only way for conservatives to communicate with one another. [laughter] so stay on their mailing list and remember there is a reason reason [inaudible] the most dangerous man in america. Heres to regnery. [cheers and applause] ladies and gentlemen, make sure you visit the photo booth downstairs ask tweet your pictures and hashtag regnery 70. Otherwise get boozy. [cheers and applause] and unfortunately, we are experiencing technical difficulties you can watch any program you see here online at booktv. Org. Author sally bedell smith, your last couple of books have been about the royal family. Why is that . Guest yes, they have. Well, i was asked to do the queen book which took me about a nanosecond to say yes because i realized in 2012 was going to be her diamond jubilee. And i knew that was going to be a big deal, celebrating 60 years on the throne. And i had always been fascinated by her, and i had written a biography of diana, princess of wales, that was published back in 1999. And so i just thought, wow, heres a very inscrutable character. Lets find out, lets pull the curtain back, and lets find out what shes really like. And as i was, as i was working on that book, i thought, well, theres an obvious sequel here, and that is her heir who is the oldest heir to the throne in british history whos waited longer than anybody else for the throne this british history in british history. And so i thought even after writing about diana, even after writing about the queen i realized very quickly that there was a huge amount that i didnt know about him. And that he is complicated and compelling and in many ways the opposite of his mother, you know . Hes had so much to say about so many things over so many years, it was like containing this story and explaining him and understanding him and what the influences were all the way from his childhood, all of his mentors, all of experiences some of which were sering, you know . The 11 years that he was married to diana in a letter that nancy reagan showed me he said it was a greek tragedy. So he was just it was like a labyrinth, you know . I went down some dark passageways and some bright passageways, and i came away knowing he obviously is flawed as a human being as we all are, but that he has done so many admirable things that people dont really appreciate. And one of the most gratifying things when ive been out talking about him is after i speak people will come up to me and say i had no idea, you know . I really admire him. Obviously, he made mistakes, but he has been a force for the good just the way Winston Churchills son i mean, Winston Churchills daughter, mary sloan, his youngest daughter who i interviewed about the queen and prince charles, she was really, really fond of prince charles. She said i believe he has improved each shining hour in his wait for the throne, which was kind of a wonderfully churchillian thing to say. Host hes a politician though, isnt he . Guest well, hes not a politician. He has, he is a, hes a charitable entrepreneur. He has over the years been very outspoken. He has tried in some instances to influence public policy. Certainly, writing letters and as he himself would put it to harass politicians to try and persuade them of his point of view particularly about Climate Change, the environment, the built environment, sustainability and those kinds of issues that are very dear to him. But hes done lots, for example, to help poor farmers. And hes tried to educate members of parliament on what kinds of things can be done to keep a lot of the small farmer, you know, to keep them economically viable. Host as a head of state though, how would his reign be different than his mothers, do you think . Guest well, i think we will, we will have to see. I think he is a very different sort of person from his mother. I think hell probably speak more, hell have even though his image is sort of as a stuffed shirt, hes actually quite informal when he speaks. Hes much more shes much more constrained in the way she speaks. I dont think hes going to be what some have predicted that he might become which is an activist king, because by the very definition of being an activist king means youre taking positions on issues of the day. And the minute he if he were to do that, he would alienate a portion of the population. So i think he will use his convening power which he has done very effectively. Not long ago he got the heads of all the major chocolate manufacturers to come together for a meeting, and they made an agreement to farm their cocoa more sustainably. I could see him as king doing Something Like that. Its not controversial. But i think he will, he will, he will play within the lines. He knows what the limits are on a constitutional monarch. He knows that once he walks into Buckingham Palace and sits in that office that he has to take the advice of the people around him including the people in the government and his own advisers. Hes made a career of the prince of wales by doing what he wanted to, starting his own initiatives, giving advice to other people. So hes going to have to change. Hes going to have to have an attitude adjustment when he becomes king. I think he recognizes that. Host will he have to wait for his mother to pass or be incapacitated . Guest yes. Well, thats really two different questions. To become king, he will have to wait for his mother to die. [inaudible] guest she will not abdicate. Abdication is anathema to her. There are two reasons. One, the abdication of her uncle which put the monarchy in some jeopardy. And the other is really it goes back to the coronation when she was anointed with oil and she made a sacred vow to, before god, to serve her people until death. And she has reiterated that pledge when she was 21 years old she gave that wonderful speech from south africa, and she said i pledge to you that i will serve you for the rest of my life. And then some years later she did a narration in a documentary, and she said this is a job for life. Now, the british are practical people, they have something called the 1937 regency act, and if the queen is mentally or physically incapacitated, there is a process that could install charles as prince regis really acting with all the powers of the monarch until his mother were to die. So that could happen if shes incapacitated, but she will not abdicate. Host has he been trained well to be king . Guest yes, he has been trained well. He understands the limit, you know, the constitutional strictures on him. Hes had a lot of freedoms as prince of wales, but particularly in the last ten years i think people around the queen have been working with him, and hes been introduced to the various duties and tasks that are, that will become his responsibility. He is, theres a period of transition right now. Its going to be a very vivid image of that on sunday on remembrance sunday where they honor, you know, honor the war dead at the [inaudible] and for the first time the queen is going to be an observer and not a participant. And he is going to lay his own wreath as well as his mothers wreath. Shes going to watch with the duke of deaden borrow duke of eden borough from the balcony. But there have been quite a few other things that he has been gradually taking on. Public things. Shes still, inside the palace walls shes still doing all the things that shes called upon to do as the head of state. Shes still meeting with ambassadors, taking credentials, doing investures, meeting with the Prime Minister every week, all those things as long as she is mentally capable and physically able. But we will be much more the public face, he and his sons. And his siblings. But mostly he and william and harry and kate and maybe somebody else. We dont know yet. [laughter] host sally bedell smith, you said at the beginning that you were asked to do the bio on qe ii. Who asked . Guest the president of random house asked me at lunch. So i took that as a definitive ask. Host what about cooperation from the royal family . Guest well, i had a lot of cooperation from Buckingham Palace. It took a little while to win their trust. Who is this american who is coming over to write about her majesty. But i think they were satisfied that the book was serious and that it was thorough and they liked it. So when it came time to do the book about the prince of wales, i got the same level of cooperation. There was no quid pro quo. They did not have any opportunity to see the manuscript. But i was able to travel with him to watch him in action, you know, to go to all the places that are significant to him to meet with his top officials, and i had a whole range of my own sources. So it was a good mixture across the board of Something Like 300 people. And traveled with him to sirri lan ca and went around the country and saw him doing lots of different kinds of things. Thats exactly the kind of cooperation that i like to have. Host sally bedell smiths recent book is prince charles, shes also written a biography on Queen Elizabeth ii. Booktv has covered that. If you go to booktv. Org, type in sally bedell smith, you will be able to watch that online. This is booktv on cspan2. Heres a look at some of the best books of the year according to publishers weekly. In ants among elephants, a description of Family History and upbringing in india. Peter man sew, curator of religion at the Smithsonians National i museum of american history, recalls the life of william mumler, a photographer in postcivil war america known for his spirit photography in the apparitionists. City university of new york professor Ashley Dawson explores how cities could be affected by Climate Change in extreme cities. In fear city, new york universitys kim phillips fine recalls the fiscal collapse of new york city in 1975 and how the citys brush with bankruptcy reshaped ideas about government. And wrapping up our look at publishers weeklys best books of 2017 is the color of law, Richard Rothsteins report on how local, state and federal legislation is responsible for americas segregated cities. Today those homes sell for 300, 400,000, is your question. The africanamerican families who are prohibited from moving into those homes and rented apartments in the city did not gain 200, 300,000 in equity over the next two generations. White families gained that equity from and today those homes are unaffordable to working class people. 100,000 in 1940 in our terms, in 194748 was twice the National Median income. Working class families couldnt afford to buy homes with an fha mortgage. Today those homes sell for seven times National Median income. Working class families and you all know this middle class families cant even afford to move the these suburbs that were created as segregated enclaves in the 40s and 50s. So today nationwide we have a ratio in income. Africanamerican income on average is about 60 of white income. Africanamerican wealth is 57 of white wealth. Most families in this country gain their wealth through housing equity. This enormous difference between 60 income ratio and 5 wealth ratio is almost entirely attributable to unconstitutional federal housing policy that was practiced in the 1930s, 40s and into the 50s. So the wealth gap, i think, is attributable to this residential segregation. Some of these authors have or will be appearing on booktv. You can watch them on our web site, booktv. Org. Not just that company where its happening. Theyre covering this up in hundreds and maybe thousands of Companies Across this country and across the world. So the big question that you ask is why to we protect the harasser. What i have found out from my research in my book is that its not always the most powerful person at the company that we protect. We sometimes even protect a lowlevel employee whos aha rahser. Of ill give you an example. Somebody comes into a job and theyre warned, hey, be careful of joe over there. Hes been here for 30 years. He has a rude sense of humor. Sure enough, the woman finds out who joe really is. She goes to complain and who do they protect . Joe. Yeah. Hes not, hes not a central person to the functioning of the company. Hes not the ceo of the company. But they protect joe and that woman is phased out. Uhhuh. So its at every level yeah. But, sally, i have to tell you that i feel buoyed by the Harvey Weinstein story. Oh, you should. Oh, absolutely. Well, but not just you, we all do. Thats what i mean. I mean, i was horrified, but i was also thrilled that this came out, that he was outed, that he got fired from his company, that theyre going to take the name of the his name off the company, that hes going into therapy and thrilled that his wife was leaving him. I mean, i think that he should be shunned, and i think that this is a huge step forward for all of us who have had these experiences, and we all have. We all have. And its a step forward for the enablers, the people that you mentioned, who will also be called out. And you know what . Theyre going to feel the shame that all of those women have felt and they shouldnt have. Exactly. Those people are going to feel ashamed. Enablers are a huge part of this problem and a huge part of this solution. And actually Sexual Harassment training in companies should focus more on enablers than almost anything else. Yeah. We should focus on how do we