c-span: nan robertson, why did you call your new book "the girls in the balcony?" >> guest: the balcony is -- or was -- the balcony of the national press club, an all-male institution until just 20 years ago. and when in 1955 the men decided that they would let in women to cover and to report on events taking place there, they put us in a very narrow, extremely uncomfortable balcony at the far end of the ballroom. we stood there while some of the most important men in the world spoke. it was hard to hear them. we were crushed together. we did not have lunch. we looked down at the male members and their guests scarfing up a four-course lunch on the ballroom floor, and it was humiliating. we couldn't even do our job right. this happened between 1955 and 1971, and finally the pro-women forces, who had been fighting in vote after vote, year after year, to have women admitted won in 1971. but just 20 years ago i was standing in that balcony with other women. we could not ask questions. we were not allowed. it was frustrating. and so one of the three women in the new yor

nan robertson was on book notes in 1992 to discuss her experiences as a woman working for the new york times. you can watch an encore presentation of that interview this weekend. and a dogfight, how apple and google went to war, and started a revolution. also featured is weekend books on cesar chavez, ronald reagan and iran's nuclear threat as well as books by authors michio ka kaku, katie kelly, and glen greenwald. all of this and more on this memorial day weekend, three days of booktv, television for series readers. for more information on this weekend's television schedule visit us online at booktv.org. >> next on booktv a panel on the u.s./mexico border from the 2014 tucson festival of books. this is about an hour. >> welcome to the festival of books. i am prof. of spanish and the rest of the conference, motivator of this panel. i would like to thank studio to sun for sponsoring this, and fema county for sponsoring this presentation and will last one hour. please hold your questions to the end. at the conclusion of this we will go to the signing area to meet you and grab the book.

for me professionally, three heroes are nan robertson, a ground breaking reporter of "the new york times" and katherine graham, the publisher of "the washington post" which broke the watergate story. they both faced discrimination in a much tougher, more male-dominated newspaper industry, and they went on to win pulitzer prizes. my colleague, jim risen, who is standing up against an unfair washington leak investigation is another hero. i co-authored a book about anita hill who testified about sexual harassment before an all-white, all-male senate judiciary committee in the 1990s. the senators portrayed her as being, as one of her detractors so delicately put it, a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty. he turned that potential -- she turned that potential humiliation into a great career teaching at brandeis university and writing books that tell truth to power. anita was one of the many people who wrote me last week to say they are proud of me. those messages are so appreciated. some of you have faced danger or even a soul-scorching loss, but most of you haven't. and leaving the prote

nan robertson was on book notes in 1992 to discuss her experiences as a woman working for the new york times. you can watch an encore presentation of that interview this weekend. and a dogfight, how apple and google went to war, and started a revolution. also featured is weekend books on cesar chavez, ronald reagan and iran's nuclear threat as well as books by authors michio ka kaku, katie kelly, and glen greenwald. all of this and more on this memorial day weekend, three days of booktv, television for series readers. for more information on this weekend's television schedule visit us online at booktv.org. >> next on booktv a panel on the u.s./mexico border from the 2014 tucson festival of books. this