what we had, the abcanineteen we had was to draw on this source of material that we have here at the museum and other archives. that was really an incredible help. it did not help in telling us what to select from. so we basically went by the idea of presenting a storyline that would also work in conjunction with what we had in mind. if you look at the book you would see that it is not an addition as you might know it. it has been integrated that combines authored text and document. so it really is a book that you can read from cover to cover. you can also pick up the document and just stick with the document. that being the case it lead to an even more interactive process when the government would speak to our narrative. in no way we were guided by what we found, but we also then guided our search for material by our analysis. were we surprised? i think a lot that we were surprised by, at least that is the case as far as i'm concerned. there is also a surprising lack of material of the kind that we tried to include here, which is material generated at the time. one would think there