Every weekend booktv offers programming focused on nonfiction authors and books. Keep watching for more here on cspan2 and watch any of our past programs online at booktv. Org. By far the most jawdropping aspect of life in crystal city was the fact that the camp was the center of fdrs secret Prisoner Exchange program. One of the lessons i learned through going through all these documents and interviewing all these people is that by whatever name it is called inalternativement, preventive detainment or just flat imprisonment the practice of incarcerating immigrants with blood ties to countries in which the United States is at war always exists in part for the purpose of exchange. Each side tries to get back their own citizens without giving up their highest value prisoners. Some of the people in crystal city were probably they probably should have been at crystal city. The head of the American Nazi Party was a high value prisoner for us, for the United States. And in germany and germany desperately wanted him back. And he was on one of the early trades. And so thats the way it worked. We didnt want to give him up because roosevelt knew that he knew a lot that might could harm us. And so every trade in the book describes what was considered behind the trades. But the great tragedy of crystal city is that many of those traded should have been of the highest value to americans because many of them were americanborn children. As this fact unfolded during years of research at the National Archives in washington d. C. And with interviews with many former children now elderly men and women in their 80s and sometimes 90s, i just found myself shaking my head in disbelief. It was in crystal the city that the machinery of modern internment and Prisoner Exchange was crafted on an industrial level. The first of four large Prisoner Exchanges took place in june 1942 and the second september 2, 1943. During these two exchanges, more than 2,000 japanese and japaneseamericans were literally traded for other americans imprisoned in japan. In february 1944 634 german residents and their americanborn children were sent from crystal city into germany in exchange for americans. On january 2, 1945 428 more in crystal city were traded into war. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Randy [inaudible] is next on booktv. He talks about the activism and political influence of the late Catholic Priest richard john newhouse. During this event in new york city, the professor sits down with author and former New York Times book review editor sam tennen house. [inaudible conversations] welcome, everybody. Its really great to be able to have an opportunity to host regular book talks by authors that write about topics of concern [inaudible] and its especially good when its a biography of the founder of the magazine. Its my pleasure tonight to introduce the biographer of the biography of richard john neu house, randy