El reino y el poder

In a fourteen-story gray Gothic building on Forty-third Street in Manhattan stood the headquarters of the world's most powerful newspaper empire: a paper whose influence remains so profound that those who run and work for it have helped shape the course of history. How a struggling daily—with a circulation of a mere 9,000 copies when Adolph Ocs acquired it in 1896—came to such a position of power is the story Gay Talese brilliantly reconstructs with extraordinary narrative skill. It was the 1960s when the master of journalism penned this fascinating story. Talese immersed himself in a newspaper that continues to set the agenda for the world order, uncovering the intrigues hidden behind the scenes and revealing the stories behind rivalries and exclusives. With meticulous attention to detail, he explored the public and private lives of the famous Ochs family and their descendants, as well as the relationships of the executives with presidents, kings, ambassadors and members of the Government, without overlooking the fierce struggles for power and control that marked the history of the newspaper.