Going Postal
Mark Ames is the author of Going Postal: Rage, Murder and Rebellion From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond and The eXile: Sex, Drugs and Libel in the New Russia. He is a regular contributor to eXiled Online.
The office shooting in Orlando-on the same day unemployment crested 10 percent-is a deadly omen. Mark Ames on why spikes in joblessness always breed more workplace violence.
Remembering Bill Safire
Morton Janklow is a senior partner of Janklow and Nesbit Associates who represents among others: David McCullough, Thomas Harris, Danielle Steele, and Michael Moore. He founded the Morton L. Janklow Professorship of Literary and Artistic Property Law at Columbia Law School and the Janklow Program for Arts Leadership at Syracuse University.
Literary agent and lifelong friend Morton Janklow on the role Safire played in his own career and how he changed political thought over two generations.
My Sober Celebration With Nixon
Peter G. Peterson is chairman emeritus and cofounder of The Blackstone Group, chairman emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, founding chairman of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, founding president of The Concord Coalition, and retired chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He is also the founding chairman of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. His most recent book, Running on Empty, was a national bestseller.
In an excerpt from his new memoir, Nixon's Commerce secretary shares the juicy details of an irritable president after his 1972 re-election-and how he fired everyone shortly thereafter.
The Real World: The Presidents
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Is the Obama White House the coolest place on Earth? You might think so after watching NBC's Inside the Obama White House-and looking at some clips from older versions of the special, one of which features a rather creepy moment of Richard Nixon and his dog.
Frost/Nixon is great. It's well-directed and well-acted. Frank Langella did a wonderful job-I think he really got into his character and captured Richard Nixon perfectly.
Sienna Miller is a BAFTA-nominated actress, model, and fashion designer. Her film credits include: Alfie, Factory Girl, Layer Cake, Casanova, Interview, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, and The Edge of Love.
Presidential Drag Gallery
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Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid are now signed to play Bill and Hillary in an upcoming HBO film penned by Frost/Nixon screenwriter Peter Morgan. VIEW OUR GALLERY of famous presidential impersonators.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
Jolie hunt is the global head of public relations for Thomson Reuters, appointed April 2008. Prior to that she served as global director of corporate and business affairs for IBM Corporation She was the director of PR for the Financial Times. She lives between New York and London.
John Barrasso is the junior senator from Wyoming.
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
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