>> guest: that picture, like a lot of the other pictures, are from archives--bettman archives, some from activists, some like the new york historical society and this gentleman waving his hat with great aplomb and happiness is looking at the suitor for the young woman or--in the vehicle, who is underneath the automobile fixing it. and it's a classic 'get a horse' picture of that particular era. i think that was from the library of congress, actually, where a lot of these images came from. c-span: and then you have a cover that has a couple of stacked, wrecked automobiles on it. whose idea was this? and where does this picture come from? >> guest: this cover, like every other author's cover, as you much know, has almost nothing to do with the author. i'm actually quite fond of it. the picture came from a stockhouse. but the bottom car, by some mysterical--mysterious process, is the first car i ever owned, which... c-span: what is it? >> guest: it's a saab from the late '60s, two-cycle engine, totally polluting. talk about hidden elements of the car--you put the gas and the oil in the same