What should we make of Losing Mum and Pup, Christopher Buckley’s memoir of the that brief, less than a year-long period when both of his brilliant, charismatic parents fell ill and died? It is warm, affectionate, respectful, appropriately laudatory, and often quite moving. But it is also frank to point of indiscretion (some say past …
Thanks to my good friend Simon Monroe, the elusive, enigmatic illustrator who did the caricature of me that will henceforth make its home on this site’s blog page. My friend Ken Smith, a man who knows from illustrators, complimented the drawing by saying that it was “Sort of Mencken in spirit, and it sets off …
I had a splendid adventure Monday night journeying into the heart of Republican Manhattan for a book party at Patsy’s on West 56th Street in honor of my friend James Rosen and The Strong Man, his new biography of John Mitchell (which received a strong recommendation last Sunday in the Times from William Safire.) Along …
Playboy Contributing Editor and Fox News correspondent James Rosen has just published The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate, a massive biography of John Mitchell, the lawyer, Attorney General and Watergate felon. James spent 17 years on this biography, and his indefatigable research has led to some challenging and sure-to-be controversial views …
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I had fun lunch last week with James Rosen, who is a Playboy Contributing Editor, a Fox News correspondent, author of The Strong Man, a new and likely to be quite controversial biography of John Mitchell, and a lethally accurate impersonator of Bob Woodward. We ate at one of my favorite restaurants, Estiatorio Milos. I’m …