i think i was influenced by simon schama's book on the french revolution called "citizens." and so, "peacemakers" was what i chose. when the americans bought it, they weren't that keen on it. they thought it seemed a bit bland and my editor said any way, she said anything with paris in the title sells really well in north america, so that's what we went with and actually i have to admit i think it's a good title and i love the cover. c-span: what's the time frame for this book? >> guest: time frame, it covers really six months in 1919. it has a bit of what happened before and it has a lot of what happened afterwards, but what i really look at is the intense period of the paris peace conference, which technically lasted for over a year. but the really intense period was when all the world leaders were there and that was from january to june, 1919. c-span: now, did you go to paris and go to the hotels and the different places where meetings were held into versailles? >> guest: i did. i went to paris actually to do research, which is not a bad place to go and do research and i