booktv.org. >> marji ross regnery, what books are coming out this fall? >> it is an election year, regnery gets into things, what is going on in this crazy election year. one in july and late august. this is the election crowd in the general election, and hillary clinton, this is a big book to get the author, to bring out hillary's america. the most frightening book you will read this year. typically done with the last big book. 2000 theaters across the country. the book comes out july 25th. a new york times bestseller. a month later, a very exciting book by ed klein, and the best-selling author, it is called guilty as sin. a real investigative reporting book. and an justice investigation. and where it will lead. and getting stories months before they break. that is what is happening in this book. >> host: two controversial others. >> guest: indeed. we need controversial outspoken author. a tendency in an election year for the news to be changing so quickly that people can't keep up and book publishers have a hard time keeping up an election year. this is more unpredictable than any i can remember. this has been quite a challenge for book publishers, news changes every day and people expect what is new every day so their -- our talent is defined as interesting, controversial, provocative, author and point of view that can tell a different side of the story. >> host: from a publisher's point of view, does hillary clinton sell? >> guest: good question. yes and no. there have been so many hillary books, if you just bring out another book that doesn't take a new angle or reveal new information there is a big risk people will say been there done that. we have looked for authors with a really good track record for digging up new dirt, talking about topics that everyone is interested in but covered in an interesting new way. >> host: what about donald trump? have you looked at books about donald trump? >> guest: we published a book by donald trump in 2011, the last election cycle when he was thinking of running last time. great book did very well, time to get tough. last summer when it became obvious he was throwing his hat in the ring, and we have a book by donald trump, why don't we put that in paperback, we had to get permission by contract so we called his office, and approve the new cover and work to update the book, really impressive. it is a very short one. we got that book out in august. time to get tough, the paperback came out as the primary season was heating up, and we sold tens of thousands of them in paperback. >> host: the conventions are coming up in july. we put a fun little booklet. >> guest: we are. in times like these, you need to have a drink. two books are coming out for the convention, drinking with the democrats and the other is drinking with the republicans and what we have done is take a lighthearted approach to the whole presidential election season. and put together the favorite techno recipes and divided it up, the democrat president, the cocktails and stories about presidential drinking in these books and equal opportunity players, a book for the republicans, book for the democrats and as these conventions unfold i would not be surprised if a lot of people thought that was the best way to make it through the season. >> host: one of the chapters and drinking with republicans is nixon with nixon. >> 18 >> guest: a story about how he likes to enjoy a cocktail and the cocktail recipe. >> host: and coulter, how is her latest book? >> guest: she wrote a fantastic book which in many ways sets the stage for the trump campaign. she was talking about illegal immigration before anyone else was. this is a very successful book, a big bestseller, and commented on it. phrased it and that is a huge stand in his campaign. in light of that, as he becomes the nominee. bringing that out in paperback. audio america in paperback this august and i think clearly, trump supporters and a large part of the country agree immigration and illegal immigration is one of the key issues we have to address, people are fed out with both -- looking for something new. >> host: a couple new divisions in regnery including regnery history. >> guest: a couple years ago, we had always done a handful of history books but realized that was something our market really loves and something we really love. we have a dedicated history imprint, and one of the most successful books in that line, is a book called tween 9 presidents who screwed up america, we compared them by how well they followed the constitution which they pledged to uphold. that was the litmus test and we broke out 9 presidents who did not do a good job honoring that pledge. that is an example of the way regnery tries to approach history. we do history books and they are well researched, and an interesting angle and with our political books we try to capture the imagination of our marketplace and talk about things they are talking about. the president who screwed up america, we are all in the process of choosing our next president and thought that would be a timely book to publish this year. >> host: putting your business hat back on what percentage of your revenues come from print size and what from e-book size? >> over the past 5 years and in the past 18 months so we are in most cases selling 25% of book units in e-books and there are categories like fiction. categories where you can see 50/50, and print books. we are at 25% on the e-book side. let me share that regnery is publishing a fiction book this year for the first time in 15 years called liberty's last stand by stephen koontz. he published 17 new york times bestsellers, several successful series, this is a book you could say could -- foreshadowing of what we have in stores if you take a bleak view of the future. it includes martial law, a suspended presidential election, and assassination attempt and texas seceding from the union. this -- at the moment only occurs in our fiction block but it is just up our alley. we are excited about that. >> host: marji ross, president and publisher of regnery thanks for your time. >> you are watching booktv, television for serious readers. here is a look at what is on prime time tonight. >> that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> on june 17, 2015, south carolinian dylan roof, a white, unemployed, 21-year-old high school dropout was on a mission to take his country back. ever since george zimmerman had walked out of the courthouse a free man after killing trayvon martin and a racially polarized nation debated the verdict, roof looked to understand the history of america, trolling through the internet he stumbled across the council of conservative citizens. the progeny of the 1950s white systems counsel that terrorized black people, closed schools and worked hand in hand with state governments to defy federal civil rights law. despite the group's avowed racist belief system in the mid-to-late 1990s, as the poverty central law center reports, 34 members were in the mississippi legislature and powerful republican party allies including then senate majority leader trent lott from mississippi. 2004 mississippi governor haley barbour, the chair of the republican national committee, and 37 other powerful politicians had all attended these events in the 21st century. earl holt, the chair, gave $65,000 to republican campaign funds including donations to the 2016 presidential campaign, rand paul, rick santorum and ted cruz. the try season enjoyed precisely the cash of respectability that racism requires to achieve its own goals within american society and hatred and lies provided the education dylan roof craved. he drink in the poison of its message, got into his car, drove to charleston, entered the manual ame church and landed in a bible study with a group of african-americans who were the model of respectability. roof prayed with them, read the bible with them, thought they were so nice, and shot them dead, leaving just one woman alive so she could tell the world what he had done and why. you have taken over our country, he said and he knew it to be true. not even a full month after dylan roof gun down tween 9 african-americans at emmanuel ame in charleston south carolina, republican presidential front-runner donald trump fired up his silent majority audience of thousands in july 2015 with a macabre promise. don't worry, we will take our country back. >> you can watch this and