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Author Williams, Marjorie, 1958-2005.

Title The woman at the Washington Zoo : writings on politics, family, and fate / by Marjorie Williams ; edited by Timothy Noah.

Publication Info. New York : Public Affairs, 2005.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  F201 .W55 2005    Available  ---
Description xvi, 365 pages ; 25 cm
Note Includes index.
Summary This collection--at once insightful, funny and sad--digs into the psyche of the nation's capital. Marjorie Williams knew Washington from top to bottom. Beloved for her sharp analysis, elegant prose and exceptional ability to intuit character, Williams wrote political profiles for the Washington Post and Vanity Fair that came to be considered the final word on the capital's most powerful figures. Her accounts of playing ping-pong with Richard Darman, of Barbara Bush's stepmother quaking with fear at the mere thought of angering the First Lady, and of Bill Clinton angrily telling Al Gore why he failed to win the presidency--to name just three treasures collected here--open a window on a human reality behind Washington's determinedly blank façade. During her last years, she wrote about her own mortality as she battled liver cancer, using this harrowing experience to illuminate larger points about the nature of power and the randomness of life.--From publisher description.
Subject Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs -- 1951- -- Anecdotes.
Washington (D.C.)
Manners and customs.
Chronological Term 1951-
Genre/Form Anecdotes.
Subject Political culture -- Washington (D.C.) -- Anecdotes.
Political culture.
Political culture -- United States -- Anecdotes.
United States.
Politicians -- United States -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
Politicians.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989 -- Anecdotes.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1945-1989
Subject United States -- Politics and government -- 1989- -- Anecdotes.
Chronological Term 1989-
Subject United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020 -- Anecdotes.
Williams, Marjorie, 1958-2005 -- Anecdotes.
Williams, Marjorie, 1958-2005.
Women journalists -- United States -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
Women journalists.
Genre/Form Anecdotes.
Biographies.
Added Author Noah, Timothy.
ISBN 1586483633
9781586483630

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