the late 70s to his book, "the century" co-authored by todd brewster. the book uses color photography and the stories of ordinary people to describe the past 100 years. it is about an hour. c-span: peter jennings, author of--or i should say co-author of "the century"... >> guest: emphasis on 'co.' c-span: ...with todd brewster. you--you ask us in the beginning to read this like a novel. why? >> guest: well, i suppose what we really want to do at the beginning is emphasize this is a journalist's history, this is a journalist's work, not an historian's work. todd and i like to say no historian in their right mind would take on 100 years in 600 pages, if the period at all. i think because we want you to pick it up and read it anywhere. i don't want you to think of it as encyclopedic. i want people to think that it's experiential; that you can pick it up anywhere, and you can look at a picture or you can read a caption. the captions are quite long, as i think you've seen--and you can just take off. and it's driven by people stories. todd is the real archite