come this way, gay talese. they open the doors of perception into the vast sitting room, the sitting room of the new york times had a whole block from 43rd street to 44 street in between those two points were dozens and dozens of rows of desks, behind the desks were typewriters and behind the typewriters were men and women reporters. in those days, you'd hear the carriage and the bellringing. they were smoking all over the room. there were editors where people were green eye shades and it was like a cathedral. this vast assortment of activity and this creative newsroom that is the center of the daily newspaper in the making, miracle in the making. he says come with me and i follow him down to the aisle looking at all these reporters and we make a left and we enter a large office i'm a very large office. in the back of this office is a desk and on the desk sits this man in a gray pinstripe suit, slicked hair with one dark shoe on the desk and is leaning back in a big leather chair. he sees me, he's guiding me in

talese talks about his career over the past 60 years. his books include the kingdom and the power, honor thy father, and unto the sons. >> i wanted to write about unknown people. i wanted to write about a little woman that maybe fed pigeons in central park or maybe a little woman who cleaned the offices of the chrysler building at 4:00 in the morning. or about some doorman outside the plaza hotel. and what he saw and what he didn't see. i wanted to write about sometimes what it was like to be a bus driver in manhattan or clean the subways at 4:00 in the morning. those obscure characters that people do not -- ordinary people do not recognize. i wanted to be a chronicler of those who are unrecognized, untitled. >> for more of this weekend's schedule, go to booktv.org.

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talese talks about his career over the past 60 years. his books include "the kingdom and the power," "honor thy father" and ""unto the sons." >> i wanted to talk about unknown people, maybe a little woman who fed pigeons in central park or a little woman who clean the chrysler builder at 4:00 in the morning or a doorman outside the plaza hotel and what he saw or didn't see. i wanted to write about what it was like to be a bus driver in manhattan or clean the subways at 4:00 in the morning, the obscure characters that people do not -- ordinary people do not recognize. i wanted to be a chronicler of those who are unrecognize wild, untitled. >> for more of the weekend success yul go to booktv.org. >> the supreme court unanimously decided a naturalized american citizen can be stripped of citizenship if a lie or omission was irrelevant to the government's original decision. a rejection of the government's argument even minor lies can lead to a loss of citizenship. the case involves a woman who said she faced persecution in bosnia because of h

talese talks about his career over the past 60 years. his books include the kingdom and the power, honor thy father, and unto the sons. >> i wanted to write about unknown people. i wanted to write about a little woman that maybe fed pigeons in central park or maybe a little woman who cleaned the offices of the chrysler building at 4:00 in the morning. or about some doorman outside the plaza hotel. and what he saw and what he didn't see. i wanted to write about sometimes what it was like to be a bus driver in manhattan or clean the subways at 4:00 in the morning. those obscure characters that people do not -- ordinary people do not recognize. i wanted to be a chronicler of those who are unrecognized, untitled. >> for more of this weekend's schedule, go to booktv.org. host: we welcome to our desk for the first time one davidson, davidson, -- warren republican p or i get your special on last night's election and what you think it means in this congressional cycle. guest: it is exciting. i am happy she won the race. for those who said it was

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. >> host: gay talese, your heart has been described as the ard of hanging out. what does that mean? >> i tend to be with the people i am talking to personally.

talese talks about his career over the past 60 years. his books include "the kingdom and the power" "honor thy father" and "unto the sons." >> i wanted to write about unknown people. the little woman who fed pigeons in the park or the little woman from the ukrainian who cleaned the offices of the chrysler building at 4:00 a.m. or some doorman outside the plaza hotel and what he saw and what he didn't see. i wanted to write about sometimes what it was like to be a bus driver in manhattan or clean the subways at 4:00 a.m. those obscure characters, but people to not, ordinary people do not recognize. i wanted to be a chronicler of those unrecognized, those untitled. >> for more of this weekend's schedule go, to booktv.org. >>> next, another hearing on the president's 2018 budget request. this one is with dr. scott gottlieb, who heads the food and drug administration. he testifi

also this weekend, gay talese reflects on his 60-year career, and historian herb boyd provides a history of african-americans in detroit. mr. boyd will be our guest next sunday live on "in depth" to answer questions about his work. you can visit booktv.org for more information. that's just a few of the authors you'll see this weekend on booktv on c-span2. 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books, television for serious readers. >>> and now we kick off the weekend with shane weinberger who reports on -- sharon weinberger who reports on the pentagon agency, darpa. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon, everybody. welcome to the gaithersburg book festival. my name is mark corpsman, i'm ab state legislator from district 16. gaithersburg proudly supports the arts and humanities. we're pleased to bring you thiss fabulous event thanks in part to the generous support of our sponsors and volunteers. a few announcements. first, please silence your devices. if you're on social media today, and we sure hope you are, pleasc use the hashtag gbf. your feedback is also really valuable to us. surve

eastern a conversation with gay talese from his home in new york city. >> the books i had publiced in the last couple of years are the odd characters written by an 84-year-old, 85-year-old guy was the same that i had written when i was that age. >> honor thy father and unto the son. >> i wanted to write about unknown people. i wanted to write about the woman that fed pigeons at the park or cleaned offices at the chrysler building at 4:00 in the morning or the doorman and what he saw and didn't see. i want to write about sometimes what it was like to be a bus driver or clean the subway at 4:00 in the morning. the obscure characters that people -- ordinary people do not recognize and i wanted to be a chronicler of those who were unrecognized or untitled. >> for more of this weekend's schedule go too booktv.org. >> the senate foreign relations committee held a hearing on the use of military force with testimony from bush and obama administration officials on policy and legal issues and details about the 2007 authorization for the use of military force which was passed

also this weekend, gay talese reflects on his 60-year career, and historian herb boyd provides a history of african-americans in detroit. mr. boyd will be our guest next sunday live on "in depth" to answer questions about his work. you can visit booktv.org for more information. that's just a few of the authors you'll see this weekend on booktv on c-span2. 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books, television for serious readers. >>> and now we kick off the weekend with shane weinberger who reports on -- sharon weinberger who reports on the pentagon agency, darpa. [inaudible conversations]