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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. 5797. Washington, by Meg Greenfield (read 21 Apr 2022) This book was published in 2001, after its author had died. She was the editor of the Washington Post and worked on the book in the 1990's and had the final chapter yet to write when, in 2001, she died. It is kind of a philosophical book, discussing with much insight the behavior of political figures and reporters, and occasionally naming names--which I wished she had done more often since I am reading the book more than 21 years later and what a reader might have known when the book was published does not now readily come to mind. She was a liberal observer but did not fail to blame liberal friends for the things they did wrong, such as the misbehavior of Abe Fortas when he was on the Supreme Court. I did not appreciate the book as much as I would have had I read it 20 years ago--the political scene is so changed from what it was before Trump entered politics. But the book says many wise things which are still true today ( ) no reviews | add a review
With Washington, the illustrious longtime editorial page editor of The Washington Post wrote an instant classic, a sociology of Washington, D.C., that is as wise as it is wry. Greenfield, a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for commentary, wrote the book secretly in the final two years of her life. She told her literary executor, presidential historian Michael Beschloss, of her work and he has written an afterword telling the story of how the book came into being. Greenfield's close friend and employer, the late Katharine Graham, contributed a moving and personal foreword. Greenfield came to Washington in 1961, at the beginning of the Kennedy administration and joined The Washington Post in 1968. Her editorials at the Post and her columns in Newsweek, were universally admired in Washington for their insight and style. In this, her first book, Greenfield provides a portrait of the U.S. capital at the end of the American century. It is an eccentric, tribal, provincial place where the primary currency is power. For all the scandal and politics of Washington, its real culture is surprisingly little known. Meg Greenfield explains the place with an insider's knowledge and an observer's cool perspective. No library descriptions found. |
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