At the Wedding Space on East 38th Street last night, Little Brown threw a great party for Ryan D’Agostino in honor of his new book Rich Like Them. It turned into a night for me to run into Esquire staffers, ex-Esquire staffers, and ex-colleagues of mine, who were sometimes one and the same people. Above, …
Slate‘s Jacob Weisberg, the tireless archivist of our still-current president’s recurrent mangling of the English language, has compiled his list of the Top 25 Bushisms. when you think there’s nothing you’ll miss about Bush, remember these. 1. “Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to …
From my review of Russ Baker’s FAMILY OF SECRETS: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America, Halfway through the concluding chapter of Family of Secrets, Russ Baker mentions, not entirely modestly, that when a colleague heard some of the things he would …
Dear Mr. Cheney: Thank you for your recent letter inquiry about a position with the Gallup organization. As one of the nation’s leading polling firms, we are always on the lookout for individuals with talent and experience, and your resume is outstanding. Moreover, you have correctly observed that the reluctance of people to take our …
Nobody can predict with any certainty how the first 100 days of Barack Obama’s presidency is going to turn out, but the last time the country decided to play host to a major financial crisis, the new president and cabinet changed the face of America. In his new book Nothing to Fear: FDR’s Inner Circle …
My eagle-eyed friend John Connolly spotted this complimentary comment about Spy in, of all places, The Tube City Almanac of McKeesport, Pennsylvania: With My Little Eye: One of my purchases during the recent Book Country outing was a history of the late, lamented Spy magazine called Spy: The Funny Years. I started to page through …
“Indeed,” says Joe Klein of Time magazine, “as the weeks have passed since the election, I’ve felt — as an urban creature myself — less restricted, less defensive. Empowered, almost. Is it possible that, as a nation, we’re shedding our childlike, rural innocence and becoming more mature, urban, urbane . . . dare I say …
This may come as some surprise, but even in these times, when it’s all the vogue to lose your job and all the trendsetters are competing to see whose net worth can drop the fastest, some people still want to be rich. If you’re one of them, you may learn something about how to get …
A highly eclectic, hardly systematic accounting of what I liked best in 2008: 1.) THE ELECTION. What a tremendous drama. The characters were strong and well-drawn–too-good-to-be-true Barack Obama, the redoubtable Hillary Clinton, the indomitable and gracious John McCain, and the brilliantly imagined Sarah Palin, among others–plus the well-plotted series of upsets and comebacks, culminating in …
Here’s Bob Herbert, writing in today’s Times (Op-Ed Columnist – Add Up the Damage – NYTimes.com): When Mr. Bush officially takes his leave in three weeks (in reality, he checked out long ago), most Americans will be content to sigh good riddance. I disagree. I don’t think he should be allowed to slip quietly out …