The kingdom and the power (1969)

The classic inside portrait of The New York Times, by a writer who joined the paper as a copyboy in 1953 and left as a reporter in 1965. Talese is interested in people more than front pages: the editors, factions and rivalries that shaped what the most powerful paper in America printed from the end of the Second World War into the 1960s. Written with a novelist's eye for character, it remains the model of the newsroom portrait. Nagourney's The Times carries the story on.