feist is up there talking to the auditorium fulll of preppies at the american enterprise institute, and these guys who were at the war were throwing food at him. that was an out of body experience. [laughing] >> i would recommend "scoop" to anybody who wants to learn how to write about war. because it will tell you all you need to know about covering stuff that's not happening and how to find the stuff that is happening. >> well, the other thing is that probably the best book about the vietnam war was written before it happened. and that's -- >> the quiet american? >> graham green, yet. everything is there. the vietnamese, the american, a british character but it's really the french. you don't really have to know anything else, but actually the problem was that you do, if you reporter you have to. you were describing it, lucian, as going into a room and coming, describe all the furniture in the room while thees furniture s changing all the time. so as a reporter you will have to have your own examples and get them right and know what you're talking about. and that's really very hard in