investigative project editor at the "dallas morning news", recounts how the late casino owner, benny binion, helped shape current day las vegas. look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. >> starting now on booktv, peter finn talks about the publishing history of boris pasternak's dr. zhivago. the manuscript of the book -- which was banned in the soviet union because of its critical depiction of the 1917 revolution -- was smuggled out of the country in 1956 and published widely around the world. the cia, recognizing the ideological value of the book, published a russian-language version and smuggled it back into the soviet union where it was sold on the black market and became an underground hit. this is about half an hour. >> hi. it's a great pleasure today to introduce a distinguished writer. as you have, no doubt, read from his biography, he's from ireland, but he does speak good english. [laughter] i'm not going to tell you what's on his biography, because you can read that. but, you know, what we have i

and in "blood aces" dog swanson of the dallas morning news recounts how benny binion helped shape las vegas. watch nor author tuesday -- authors in the near future on booktv and booktv.org. >> booktv is on location at the number public library in mid-town man dnr man hat than. an thornton is here. >> i'm the director of the research libraries. >> what does that mean? >> there are four research libraries, there's this one in mid-town manhattan, the center for research in black culture in harlem, the library for the preferring arts at lincoln center, and the business library at 34 not stream and maddison avenue. >> host: what do you do as directors. >> collections, fellowships, reference and research and preservation. >> going to have ann thornton show us some of the collections in some of the research library pair fer naila. where are we right now? >> we're in the magnificent rose main reading room of the new york public library. this is really he heart and soul of the library. you see here lots of users who are taking advantage of the library's resources, not only our physical resourc