of the two most famous american madams ever. in american rose we learned about an american icon who hasn t been explored the way you explored her. now with liar, temptress, soldier, spy you hit on several things i have door. unexplored american history, espionage, and women with real spines, adventurous incredible women. tell us about what this book is about. i will tell you the origins. i was born and raised in philadelphia and moved to atlanta in 2001. the civil war seats in the conversation in the south in a way that it doesn t in the north. i saw the occasional confederate the, heard the jokes of norton war of northern aggression. [laughter] homehe point was driven that it wasn t a joke. for i was stuck in traffic hours behind a pickup truck that had a bumper sticker that said. blame me, i voted for jeff davis. i looked at this for hours and started thinking of course, what were the women doing? they didn t have easy access to , they didn tcourse have the right to vote.
this event was taped in 2014 at a bookstore in asheville, north carolina. t s about an hour. denise: i am thrilled to be here with karen abbott. i love her book. love all her books. you show us this entire other view of chicago through the eyes of the two most famous american madams ever. in american rose, we learned about an american icon who hasn t been explored the way you explored her. now with liar, temptress, soldier, spy, you hit on several things i adore. unexplored american history, espionage, and women with real spines, adventurous incredible women. tell us about what this book is about. karen: i will tell you the origins. i was born and raised in philadelphia and moved to atlanta in 2001. i noticed immediately that the civil war seeps in the conversation in the south in a way it never does in the north. i saw the occasional confederate flag, heard the jokes of the war of northern aggression. the point was really driven [laughter] good point. and the point was
out of town here were here from the army/navy game saturday. i went. first time, great experience that was at the link. we go back to the link the next day and we are win. we are looking good. two wins in a row. sue, weather was a great the way to showcase the the area. it was incredible. the it felt like early fall, not end mid fall, it it was a record breaking weekend with these warm temperatures. we broke a high temperature record on saturday and yesterday as well. today though it is an issue, fog, and it is a dense fog advisory in effect for the the entire area, and until 10:00 a.m. so we re looking at visability as low as .8 of a mile at philly international. quarter mile in wilmington. mile and a half in lancaster. half mile in pottstown. nothing in mount pocono, this morning. the this is widespread fog, and drive-in and out, so big thing to allow yourself some extra time to get where you are going this morning. the it is 54 degrees. 3-mile an hour wind if you are
you re watching booktv on c-span2 with top non-fiction books and authors every weekend. booktv television for serious readers. from my father i inherited my confidence my resilience, my passion, and my audacity, looking back although it was never explained to me in this way, he taught me the spirit of which is greek idea of honor and doing the right thing, even when one s own interests or even one s own life is in peril. growing up while i never fought anything but australian there were two stories about the second world war and greece that i always kept close to my heart. the first was in 1940 when benito mussolini italy s prime minister asked the greek prime minister for free passage through greece and on the spot at 3:00 in the morning without hesitation, without consultation he said oy he said no. it was spirited defiance and quite incredible when considering just how vastly outnumbered the greeks were by the italians. it prompted sir winston churchhill, the greatest
published as the president but a lot of stuff i didn t publish. one thing corry told me was the diary and write down the stuff that is interesting to you. so i did and i thought it was so important. when young doctors and aspiring writers asked me how do you get started? i say you have to record your reflections. .. i had been in school for 19 years. 19 years after graduating from high school. i had that quantum dot detour. so i was just ready to be done, and reap some rewards for all that all those sleepless nights and what i found was that doctors were very unhappy, and when you re in training, the focus is on the physiology and learning about the heart. it s not really about the culture of practice. so i was largely blinded to that. and then i took on my first role and i m talking to doctors and i find they re very unhappy with medical practice today. and it wasn t just about the stresses we all know. it upabout the paperwork and the malpractice fears and so on. it was a d