coverage go to the book tab on our website, booktv.org. good afternoon and welcome to the session on trailblazing women. this is going to be an exciting channel and i m glad you re here. this is the seventh annual book festival, thank you c-span for covering it and thank you to all you all rated the cold rain and whether even though we are in june. i m cheryl kagan andis my honor to be the senator for pittsburgh and ross well in the maryland state senate . on social media today if you are following along at home you can to at our authors and the book festival we are also on histogram and facebook and everything so i m delighted to have marlene pressman and john noris here. our country is at the brink of possibly electing a first woman president and none of that would be possible without some trailblazing women the two who have been profiled in these wonderful books we re going to talk about today. i had never heard of betsy margolin before reading this book by marlene kessl