caucusing that come your phone, e-mails and tweets on c-span 2 s booktv. from politics & prose bookstore in washington, jeff himmelman recounts the washington post ben bradlee, this is about 45 minutes and it contains language that some may find offensive. [inaudible conversations] good evening. i m bradley graham, current editor a lot with my wife, alyssa at politics & prose. on behalf of everybody here at the store, i would like to welcome you. as those of you who attend our events know, we try to have an author come as soon as possible after his or her book is released. most of the times the authors who have appeared in at least one or two other places before reaching pmp and will have given interviews to news organizations. but tonight, we actually have a world exclusive. this is the first time that jeff himmelman is speaking publicly about his new biography of former washington post editor, ben bradlee. and the book, yours in truth has 30 generated some controv