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up next on booktv john donvan ended at 13 provide a history of auti difficulties in diagnosing. thank you. this is a great book. i feel bad that you got my back over it there so how about this. is very moving book and it is also, what is great about it is a lot of individuals against the system stuff which is very moving and very real. this worries and social history. it is agreed. so congratulations, guys. i guess a lot of things about the book fascinated me and moved me but why don t we start where you started which is how you both got interested in it. and what led you to it and a little about your relationship. your relationship to abc and how this became a big story. caren zucker? 21 years ago, not long after that, i figured out i needed to do something to try to help them, understand it better. i asked john donvan to help me because we were a team of journalists working together. you saw the story right away? the truth is john saw it as a story right a ....
with coal hahn to launch one book through an entry they and entered they had done with the new yorker because you take any opportunity. the media really works with partners and fashion, particularly in liquor because they are always looking for an upmarket audience and the reader books is that allegedly. i don t think you do advertising. taxes and other places. and any ideas, any of our institutions we can recruit advertising, museums, libraries. the small business administration would be a delightful federal partner for independent booksellers who are struggling to stay alive. i am on the other side of where our administration with the department of justice case. things went awry. again, six publishers fixing their e-book prices which essentially pitted intellectual property against technology and given that we are on the precipice of the sunny divide when the tech sector is using intellectual property in a way that does not compensate the people who make it, the ....
.. founder of several nonprofit organizations including the investigative report shop here and before that the center of integrity. chuck s most recent book, the future of truth and decline of america s moral integrity. it s a fascinating of many truths manipulated by governments and corporations. the buying of the president a chilling look into the finance ing and presidential campaign written with staff. chuck is a full-time professor and teaches investigative journalism and recently returned from a fellowship. tonight he is going to have a conversation with jim mayer. a passion that chuck shares. chuck. [applause] thank you very much, jeff, and welcome everybody, jane, welcome to american university. to introduce jane, we would take ten minutes just to go through her bio, which is an astonishing bio. one of the preimminent journalists in the u.s. the new yorker now 11 years, how many years, sorry? i shouldn t ask. several years. anyway, literally winner of some man ....
it is interesting the would say abraham lincoln. but what do you really think will bring us to the point of action? because i suspect what i am suggesting it requires abraham lincoln like leadership. liberalism prior to world war ii, as an example of timberland to declare peace forever but only churchill stood up in parliament. we sent people to read maya your germany have those delete thinkers and intellectuals we have mussolini over here to appear. only when a catastrophe occurs to reappear to wake up. what you think will be required to respond in a meaningful way that will change the direction of this country into world? america always does the right thing when it is out of every other option. [laughter] and alexis day tocqueville said the greatness of america relies in the ability to repair itself and recognize a trajectory and i remained wildly optimistic that this great republic will be restored to her full potential. and largely optimistic that america will c ....
at the metropolitan museum journal. she has her phd in art history at theu and volunteers mansion in new york and we will find out about that connection and the book the remarkable rise of eliza jumel: a story of marriage and money in the early republic. will be on sale afterwards. it is my pleasure to introduce margaret oppenheimer. margaret: thank you very much. on wednesday, july third, 1833, a distinguished new yorker and a former mayor of new yorker wrote a note in his diary. the celebrated colonel byrd was married on monday evening. the choice of at because was interesting. not distinguish but celebrated. celebrity have the same connotation it has today. someone who was known to the public but not always with a mixed approval. today, on going to talk about how alive the and aaron became public figures, why they married, and what happened after these celebrities joined hands. ladies first. here, we see allies are eliza on your right. she is painted here about a ....