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 o
Booktv. Org. Next, from the recent Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest Monique Brinson demery talks about her biography of the former first lady of vietnam, madame nhu. This is about 45 minutes. Conve, eric banks. Mr. Banks. Thank you. Thank you very much. Welcome everybody. Its good to see you here this morning and its my pleasure to welcome. It is my pleasure to welcome Monique Brinson demery, the author of the amazing book booke dragon lady the mystery of vietnams madame nhu, which has recently been published by Public Affairs books. She holds a masters degree from harvard university, and when she made contact with madame nhu who was the unofficial first lady of the south east government in 2005, she was the first journalist to interview her in almost 20 years. She is based in chicago where happy to walking, monique. Thank you for having me. Thank you for coming today. Its such an interesting book. Im curious how you first became interested in writing a book about what i think a l
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