What is the building behind us . Is the original 1905 branch of the Public Library where the schomburg collection arrived 1925 and behind that first for set of windows was the exhibition hall. This is in many ways a historic home this is an amazing institution to j. It is the critical part of the overall stability the director from the schomburg center. Thank you for your time. We have the editor in the Publishing Industry, a adam bellow what do you do for a living . Spec i have been a Nonfiction Book editor 27 years. I currently work at harpercollins for price specialized in publishing books by conservative intellectuals and figures i have an imprint and previously i have been there 67 years and never to other places in the industry with that crossover imprint called the free press. So when i started out it was the academic editor to go to academic conferences and University Departments do talk to. What are the offer it the authors to have worked with . That includes james wilson one of my intellectual heroes. And when he died a couple of years ago and the moral sense was his favorite. And i became known for publishing books like the young firebrand in the early 90s the first was called it a liberal Education One of the first to deal with political correctness. Miscalled of real and native hill perhaps the evidence given in the up hearing as of major best seller but since then one of the protestant was glad to have is the holocaust which was a book we had to twist her arm into publishing and she did not want to give Holocaust Denial a forum that is what they want. They want attention. So we persuaded her was an important subject and she was up sued in a British Court as a holocaust denier and she won and went to jail. But with early of the 2000s accused of liberal fascism. More recently sarah palin going roque. And currently clinton cash that has to on the bestseller list several weeks. And i publish multiple books but your stockman trade is a list of authors and your relationship is very important and when you move houses you hope they will follow you from house to house and it is very gratifying. But i always say editors have to be patient people a good example is arthur brooks. Over five or six years ago before he was made president at a. E. I. He already published a series of and was too busy to write books to fran have five or six years later i have another book coming out that i think is very important because i hope it will open up a new type of discord to encounter the conservative movement with the right to break an element brain element but itd say bookend to a famous volume called the conservative mind. With that intellectual movement. And is a gsa is that liberal policies can best be achieved for crowded it is a brilliant sub for sieved booked and i am looking forward to your published very much also ted cruz of looking in june that will get a lot of attention. These are some of the books i have published in the past. Have genu. Banderas someone told me that is what i was doing harriet would not have reconsidered but i may have with a general interest nonfiction and there i with anthropology or religion or books on jewish subjects is an interest of mine. Those that were the most susceptible really within two years what i learned is the Publishing Industry is not run is scientifically or not very organized. It is like the Great Barrier reef with the cater san jose if you are a writer to place with the right publisher and editor. It is a matchmaking function. It is very difficult to find the right person. Who is that person . Can enter in but that is what men but as you get to be known to do research in type of thing but then been that they identify you that way. So then you get the submission in that area. Or a religion editor these are institutional pressures on a new touche specialize. That seemed like a good thing then you start to feel inclined but i have not worked that way but there is of great deal of ideological variety and of course, ive not limited time executive editor at harpercollins one of the things that is interesting is more and more books are being published and i think clinton in cash the book by conservative journalist and a book that republished a couple of weeks ago it speaks to a Promising Development when i started out there is so named gregory which was the honorable but rarely with the view that says one that stands outside the mainstream. With the end my mentor where in the effort to break down barriers of expression that was exciting and day consequential statement to do. After cheddars if we have read them success a large Publishing Companies realize the effect of massmarket the special inference begin to be created in been dedicated to that conservative imprint and beyond that editors all over town so we are in a completely different context host day you have to agree with your author to be a good editor . It is better if you dont in some ways. It is difficult to answer because each is different but your intellectual editor are somebody who publishes theyre doing a service if you challenge them even if you do agree the importance of the argument that are substantiated and expressed in that way at dont consider myself to be the sectarian editor for a long time i thought of myself as of i am from new york with that category many social attitudes are liberal with my family or friends my colleagues are all liberal those that i work with to sharply but it is related because i am doing it from them for them. If somebody grew up here with the enclave with that political journey i then felt like platos philosopher that i had left the cave but then what is my obligation to friends and family . I always thought of myself of the outside world with a great power fault institution where unbeknownst to them they dont think of themselves that way necessary but it does develop so they become impervious but half the country is conservative and there are many more conservatives writing up than down the elevators more then you might think. Although i would add over the course of the your the surrounding conditions have changed so talk about Controversial Books of course, bristling and professionally i got back kick when republished daybook like a liberal education to sit interoffice when you have the in box there would be refused and columns and letters to the editor of this small midwestern newspapers and it is very satisfying that you made impact and people heard about it. That is what publishing is highly say active publishing is Martin Luther nailing to the door of the cathedral that is what a publisher does. Imagine are in the user and e were sitting in your Call Department and youre uncomfortable and very best authors writing to come up with these arguments then you say what will i do . The world has to know so he went to the times square so everybody could see it that way. That is the spirit of the publishing i like to do. In the old days it used to be possible or too easy to set off a national controversy. There was one real platform and everybody was competing to get access there were only three broadcast networks and a handful of papers it was for one culture who will get access through dash platform . Overtime that has changed the culture is no longer unified as there are many competing voices in different media and as that has developed i find it becomes increasingly developed by dash difficult to generate a controversy around a book that has been some years but it is fairly clear the political media has the of bifurcation with the media on the right and on the left who agree with those points of view meet and listen to what is broadcast and published a rand and the political culture has become polarized in there is a positive value but isnt this the same . Only conservatives will buy that liberal education . So you dont get that broader audience . That is an interesting question and. What made a liberal education success will originally it my view is lets dat the early 90s and there was upheaval on campus to introduce the of multicultural curriculum with the courses that reflected the greater diversity also demand for greater diversity of faculty and wither if we read the better off to read my angelou. And there was at that time on campus in the overall the of the enlightened educative liberals a position not brought to light that is a rift between the radical of on guard of the will to cultural tajo moved in the traditional factory of those who were raised in the west the west and thought they had value and these people were somewhat uncomfortable. Not so much with the idea to be more inclusive but the question of tried and true classics but the common view of the conventional middle ground liberal is the radicals on the left are well motivated and well intentioned with the right idea but their hasty without patients or they move too fast or throw something away of value that should that be thrown away. But hindsight if you publish a Controversial Book you adapt of goal of the public mind long consideration of the response but but you dont want to be bullied or intimidated or ostracized but the kneejerk reaction but many of that traditional central liberals to noticed because of the controversy and decided to open it up and read it. That is where my role as editor is important because we agreed that those bahut people the open minded liberals is a real audience and writing the book to persuade them. Not to be the up though left by it but the vast majority but up to this point of view . Bad is the point to bring conservative viewpoints to in my in the opinion. That is well we were trying to accomplish and i think that we did. I havent mastered to give a short answer. I apologize but this is cable. I can digress. The value to publish a book like that is that it creates a controversy is to generate attention and then draws people to use the book but as a person on the other side, now we fastforward 25 years to the book clinton cash. This takes on the clintons and it does not specifically draw any conclusions but here is a pattern of activity that looks suspicious. We are not saying they did anything wrong but may be no Legal Authority should look into this and mindy and stayed away with in that liberal academy clinton in cash has uncovered a rift with the Democratic Party and with the liberal Mainstream Media to say that some people believe very strongly to see her elected president and others but that is as far as i remember but he does say it is not okay to break ranks and it is persuasive but itd say comment that somebody once made with that demographic. It is an argument that wants to be heard. And when it is a defiance the field in such a way people have to choose sides then you find out. Just as an aside broadside had to do some corrections. Correct . Every book i remember years ago to remember the book backlash how women are prevented from dancing hugely successful and popular someone on the right jiddah catalog and showed it to make was you publish this as the book . That is the first time anyone suggested that to me but that was just the indicator and the New York Times that they have a