. >>> the only reason that stephen king has publish mord books than john prados, king makes stuff up. prados has written 17 books, the blood trail, about the ho chi minh trail, inside the pentagon papers and viet nam, the history of an unwinnable war. senior fellow with the national security archive and institution for historians and everyone interested in fighting needless government secrecy, prados heads the iraq doicumentation contrac. it's in his contract i should mention his book is the normandy crucible. ladies and gentlemen, a heavy weight historian, john prados. [ applause ] >> thank you very much, that was very gracious. also add my voice to all my colleagues, congratulating and thanking the people who brought us to this event here this weekend. we think it's a wonderful opportunity to bring these issues before the public eye. actually, we were talking about historeography, it shows you how the process goes of trying to read the tea leaves and interpret issues in history. so the phrase "decent interval" comes from an article henry kissinger wrote, which he published in the jo

john prados. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. that was very gracious. let me also add my voice to those of all my colleagues congratulating and thanking the people who brought us to this event here this weekend. we think it's a wonderful opportunity to bring these issues before the public eye. actually, we were just talking about his tor i don't gofy. let me open on a his tor graphical note. it shows you kind of how the process goes and a time to read the tea leaves. the phrase decent interval actually comes from an article that henry kissinger wrote, which he published in the journal foreign affairs in the month before the 1968 election. people, especially foreign affairs experts, positioned themselves for potential appointments in dual administrations by putting out views and opinions that potential presidents can take a look at and decide if they like these people. kissinger did this very thing in this article in foreign affairs. well, lo and behold, the phrase "decent interval" becomes very controversial because of what happens in the vietnam war. i

the only reason why stephen king has published more books than john prados is that king gets to make stuff up. prados has written 17 non-fiction books including the hidden history of vietnam. "the blood trail" which is about the ho chi minh trail, and the pentagon papers and vietnam, the history of an unwinnable war. a senior fellow with the national security archive and indispensable institution for historians and everyone interested in fighting needless government secrecy. prados heads the iraq documentation project or the vietnam project. it is in his contract that he mentioned the normandy crucible which is not about vietnam. ladies and gentlemen, a relentless researcher and heavy weight historian john pradas. >> thank you very much. that was very gracious. we also add my troyes those of all my colleagues and congratulating and thanking the people who brought us to this event here this weekend. we think it's a wonderful opportunity to bring these issues before the public eye. actually, since we were just talking about historiography, let me open on a historical graphical note bec

jeffrey sim ball, katherine scott, and john prados. >> thank you very much. >>> you're watching american history tv. 48 hours of people and events that help document the american story. all weekend every weekend on c-span3. >>> c-span's 2012 local content vehicle cities tour takes our book tv and american history tv programming on the road. the first weekend of each month. march featured shreveport, louisiana, with book tv at the knoll memorial library. >> mr. knoll was a local man who was born here and lived here most of his life, and he started accumulating books when he was a teenager and continued until he was in his 80s. over his lifetime, he accumulated over 200,000 volumes. if we have a gem in the collection it is probably going to be this one. it's one of the books we're most proud of. it's in the original binding from 1699, and it was once owned by a very famous scientist. you can see he's written his name, i. newton, and we're not pulling it out so much anymore because it is starting to flake away on the title page. >> and american history tv looked at civil war era medical pra