Charles McElwee
Editor at RealClear Politics
Editor, @RealClearPA • Writer, @RCPolitics, @CityJournal, @POLITICOMag • Deep Hazleton roots ☘️ • Novak '20, @PennFels alum • [email protected]
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2 weeks ago |
city-journal.org | Charles McElwee
The epitaph on John O’Hara’s Princeton gravestone reads: “Better than anyone else, he told the truth about his time, the first half of the twentieth century. He was a professional.” Another Irishman, Jay McInerney, picked up the second half—or at least, a decade of it, the 1980s—and a city, New York. “It was a surprise to me when I started being hailed as a spokesman for my generation, as a definer of the zeitgeist,” he says.
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3 weeks ago |
city-journal.org | Charles McElwee
Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses, by Peter Wolf (Little-Brown, 335 pp., $30).
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1 month ago |
city-journal.org | Charles McElwee
When the Going Was Good: An Editor’s Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines, by Graydon Carter (Penguin Press, 422 pp., $32)In a 1974 Paris Review interview, an elderly Archibald MacLeish was asked about “the special pull of the Murphys,” the couple, Gerald and Sara, who personified the 1920s literary scene of American expatriates in Paris. “There was a shine to life wherever they were . . .
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Oct 21, 2024 |
thephiladelphiacitizen.org | Charles McElwee
For ten presidential election cycles, pundits have employed the same shopworn quote when describing Pennsylvania: “Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, with Alabama in the middle.” The expression was coined in the state’s 1986 gubernatorial campaign by Democratic political strategist James Carville, whose success in that race helped propel a storied career. Ever since, PA’s “Alabama” has dictated perceptions of the electorate outside its two major cities.
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Oct 18, 2024 |
city-journal.org | Charles McElwee
For ten presidential election cycles, pundits have employed the same shopworn quote when describing Pennsylvania: “Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, with Alabama in the middle.” The expression was coined in the state’s 1986 gubernatorial campaign by Democratic political strategist James Carville, whose success in that race helped propel a storied career. Ever since, Pennsylvania’s “Alabama” has dictated perceptions of the electorate outside its two major cities.
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