This year he also wrote an article on Clifton Daniel the managing editor of his former employer The New York Times.

Talese believed there was a bigger story about the paper, and began researching and writing The Kingdom and the Power.

Talese described Reston as a "Times-man in the old sense, a man emotionally committed to the institution as a way of life, a religion, a cult.

He ranges through the minds and psyches of his protagonists, but we almost never step outside the confines of the offices on 229 West 43 Street" where the Times was headquartered.

[3] In 2006, Roger Ailes, president of the Fox News Channel, said The Kingdom and The Power was one of the best five books about journalism ever written.