Haymarket . Aces of books coming from noam chomsky. In fact, if you can write over there, a series of 12 books, the event either out of print or inaccessible with the introductions, new covers, resetting them all and really presented in a way that we think highlights the important and a Lasting Legacy of his work. And they are done by issued . Ya. They cover a range of issues come and we will be bringing out to a month over the next commonwealth six month starting in the fall. And finally what else you want to tell us about . I want to mention a book by Tom Engelhardt who is a regular author of ours. Is this is a books called dispatch books and also writes his own books for us. And this third book is coming out, shadow government, curly on the new best times. Its looking at the nsa and the politics surveillance in this country. Anthony arnove at haymarket books out of chicago, haymarket books. Org is the website. This is boonktv on cspan2. N next from the recent Chicago Tribune printer
Then at 8 p. M. Eastern, in depth, with peniel jost. And we conclude at 11 p. M. With angelo codeville ya, author of to make and keep peace among ourselves and all nations. That all happens next onp cspan2s booktv. Next, from the recent Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest, Monique Brinson demery talks row about her biography of theher former first lady of South Vietnam, madame nhu. This is about 45 minutes. Welcome, everyone. Its very good to see you hereth this morning, and its my goo pleasure to welcome today Monique Brinson demery, the author of the amazing book finding the dragon lady the mystery of vietnams madam new, madame nhu. Aff demery holds a masters degrees. From Harvard University in east asian regional studies, and when she made contact with madame nht who was the unofficial first lady of is South Vietnamese government in 19 2005, you were the first journalist toshe interview her in almost 20 years. And themlys based in chicago, and were happy to welcome you, ho anemic.
Quickly changed when i started learning all the facts. But i have the utmost respect for her. She was a strong woman in a tiny place and where was not okay to be a strong woman and i really think that she embodied a lot of the concepts that women face when they are trying to be ambitious in a place that wont let them express themselves and tries to put them down. So i have a lot of respect for her. And not only she had not only sprung detractors in the early 60s but a couple of people who really thought that she was a much more complex person and wanted to write about her were also women. You talk about marguerite higgins. Marguerite higgins and Clare Boothe Luce were big advocates of madame nhu. Its interesting i think we are living in a time where we see more interesting biographies written about clinical figures and particularly from asia that we have seen. It there was a really interesting biography last year of written by a woman and it seems like there is a different generation o
Palm of the u. S. Government. How much better to the American Press do because you must have read a lot of articles and watched a lot of newsclips. The u. S. Media did they build her up or demonize her or trivialize her or how did the u. S. Press do . Such a good question. The u. S. Press, i think if you read the accounts of helper sam and sheehan and Malcolm Brown who were there in the early days they tend to have really believed that the United States was doing the right thing by being in vietnam. This was a country that needed to be saved and they dominos were very real and they were really falling so they were really sort of patriotically behind the United States involvement in South Vietnam. But because of that madame nhu and her family were really a stumbling block. They were things up right and left in these reporters could see it and no one else was talking about it. So they were advocates for i dont want to say the replicas for regime change but they were advocates for getting