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Please keep the spirit of lit fest going all year long with a subscription. This year we are also introducing a new digital bookstore. Please take one of our promo cards for information about the app and axis the special book deals. Before they can todays program please file ensure cell phones. You return your camera flash off. We will allow you to take pictures. You can post those pictures online using hashtag printers row. Gives me great pleasure to introduce to you guys are moderate todays conversation, 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 today Monique Brinson demery, the author of the amazing book, finding the 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, ....
Dallas and theres a ranch there and she gets invited to go shooting. So her daughter dresses up in like western gear and apparel has the first kind of teenage romance with a texas guy. And her reception that madame nhu gets from her mother, was very worried about madame nhus visit to the United States so she posts a state department has had an estimate as has madame nhu really shouldnt come you. I have arent all that the in these to throw tomatoes after and if they see her to run her over with the car. This is her mother. She does get tomatoes for better. She also gets Standing Ovations from fordham, from georgetown, from a lot of Catholic Education speed is good to say, she really mapped out the Catholic College and universities, i can or as part of her tou ....
Certainly get shoved into one of these to the categories. We even had chicagos tokyo rose. When i was trying to kind of wrecking waits this very complex figure, you present her and all are complex today, which i think is wonderful. I kept thinking also about modelo to mark those who doesnt come up in the book, this strikes me as a counter model. She certainly was a figure like that. The mac now she wasnt. Registered theres an offbroadway play in new york. Discussing about the delta markers. I think it was called boots. A thousand shoes. Its called here lies love. And i think madame nhu would be a great character for his next. She was flamboyant and didnt go quietly either. Has anyone been interested in making a film about her life if im asked quite not that i know of. The next theres anyone out there, taking authors. Thats right. What was she like . You portray this very well in the book, but tell us about what she was like when you anointed a contact. She wasnt exactly advertising whe ....
Too controversial. So now theres more education about it, but it is still a hard conflict to streamline and get people talking about. So if this is one way to do that, madame nhu is a very polarizing figure and i i think it needs to be explored, and all. Did your personal feelings for her change over time . I dont know if you started the project is a blackandwhite figure politically and historically. I dont know whether you take became from that kind of a physician, but did she become much more personalizes you in the process of working on about quick when i started i thought this is a woman whos been stereotyped and i was going to rescue her and all this stuff. But she really didnt need to be rescued. She was good in that. She was complicated. I think my initial i am going to do this world a Great Service was quickly changed when i started learning all the facts. But i have the up most respect for her. I mean, she was a strong wom ....