at the stockbridge archive? >> guest: no, not all of them because occasionally for instance, there was a gorgeous series of paintings he did in the 1920s that were really done as ads for edison mazda. but at this time, people like maxwell parish were doing--he and rockwell were doing these ads to show light as a new--the importance of light--of electric light. and they're beautiful paintings that stand on their own as art, but general electric owns that whole series, for instance, of 20 paintings. c-span: what book is this for you? >> guest: well, it depends upon how you count, which life. my life as an academic, if i count that, this would be my fourth book. if--if--at writing for a public that's not just in the--in the academies, it would be my second. c-span: where were you in academic and--and are you still doing it? >> guest: no, i'm not still doing it. the us naval academy, i finished my phd in '86, i think it was, and taught there for 10 or 11 years as a professor of english, very enjoyably. c-span: why t