. >> host: >> host: joining us on booktv is kathleen razz mous m. 19 77 to 1980 valium iii. kathleen, what was your job? >> guest: my job was to put this volume together in short. my job was to go to the archives, to comb through thousands of pages of documents. in are civile collections raging from the department of state to the national security counsel, more general white house office files, as well as the papers of the u.s. representative for trade negotiations. and also the department of tissue i are, of -- treasury. i spent about a year going through the archive collections looking at thousands documents. copying them, scanning them, and bringing them back to the office then i spent a good amount of time going through them. trying to pick out the 350 or so most important, most representative documents that told the story of the carter administration's approach to foreign economic policy. >> host: foreign economic policy. >> guest: foreign economic policy. >> host: you concentrated on the economics. >> guest: indeed. in particular i look at the administration monetary p