Reputation: Portraits in Power

Williams, Marjorie

ISBN 10: 1586486799 / ISBN 13: 9781586486792

Published by PublicAffairs, 2008

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Synopsis:

In 2005, The Woman at the Washington Zoo was published to major critical acclaim. The late Marjorie Williams possessed a special voice, one capable not just of canny political observations but of tenderness and bracing intimacy, observed the New York Times Book Review. Now, in a collection of profiles with the richness of short fiction, Williams limns the personalities that dominated politics and the media during the final years of the twentieth century. In these pages, Clark Clifford grieves in his laborious baritone a bank scandals blow to his re-pu-taaaaaay-shun. Lee Atwater likens himself to Ulysses and pleads, Tah me to the mast! Patricia Duff sheds precipitous tears over her divorce from Ronald Perelman, resembling afterwards a garden refreshed by spring rain. Reputation illuminates our recent past through expertly drawn portraits of powerful- and messily human-figures.

About the Author:

Marjorie Williams was born in Princeton, N.J. in 1958 and died in Washington, D.C. in 2005. She was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a columnist for The Washington Post. Williams is the author of The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Writings on Politics, Family, and Fate, a New York Times bestseller and winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Nonfiction Award.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Reputation: Portraits in Power
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Acceptable