thomas allen presents his book at the library of congress in washington, d.c.. it's 40 minutes. >> i'm not supposed to have to plug a the library of congress that it's inevitable. a few years ago i got a call from a historian at the cia who i had met when i had been working on the george washington book about intelligence in the revolutionary war, and he says the library of congress is something you might be interested in. call this number. and i thought wow. maybe the cia really does -- [laughter] people, you know, just like in the 70's of the conduit, people reading books all the time. so, while it wasn't quite that. what had happened was the library had gotten a manuscript that had been written by a tory in connecticut during the revolution who was under house arrest for his tory fonts' coming and he decided he would write his own history of america particularly the revolution coming in his name was constant tiffany, and in the manuscript he gives a look at why he was a tory. it's kind folded into some other elements in the revolution. the point about it i fo