the thinking kind of messrs., like fruit. i don't extruded until it has got very corrupt. as far as resources are concerned, i've wanted to make the book human. i wanted to tell the stories about individuals. i did not think it was necessary to go through u.s. history. it gets drilled into them year after year. steady this american history over and over again when you are going through the school system in these countries. i did not think it was worth taking a high level of analysis. i looked for individual stories and memoirs. i mean, it has always been my practice -- it is a terrible vice which my fellow historians would condemn. i always, you know, work in serendipitous ways trying to find things that you would never find. the books that accumulate a lot of dust on them and have not been read for a long time. that's all i find some of the, i think, more vivid stories in the book. you know, the 18th-century mistake in new mexico or agnes morally, the sympathetic attitude for hispanic heritage who robo wonderful memoir about life. those are the kind of people i was lookin