Session: 123456789101112131415161718192021         Page 974975976977978979980981982983984985986937988989990991992993994995996997998999100010011002100310041005100610071008100910101011101210131014101510161017101810191020102110221023102410251026102710281029 of 1029

brilliant book. Seven years went by and then Mr. Styron delivered to us The Confessions of Nat Turner, which I think is one of the finest novels of the past twenty-five years. It's been number one for the last fourteen weeks-- ever since it came out. It jumped right to the top of the best-seller list. I think that this book will be used in history classes for the next fifty years. We're very proud to be its publisher.

In 1961, a distinguished book that we published was The Children of Sanchez by Oscar Lewis. It's rather a new type of...

He's the La Vida man, isn't he?

Both La Vida and The Children of Sanchez were done by the tape method. Lewis went around and interviewed hundreds of people. Sanchez was Mexico. La Vida is Puerto Rico. He put down on tape all the answers he got and used those tapes as the bases of both books. He learned this method while he was a professor in college, and it worked brilliantly for him.

It may be a trend too.

It certainly makes a book one hundred per cent authentic.