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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1 week ago |
city-journal.org | Charles McElwee
Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson (Penguin Press, 352 pp., $32)Joe Biden’s was a presidency encumbered by chronic, preexisting conditions. The overarching condition was a mythologized persona—avuncular, vibrant, warm—long curated by Biden and guarded by his compliant staff. In exchange for this devotion, Biden had left a long trail of disenchantment among those who knew and worked with him.
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2 weeks ago |
city-journal.org | Charles McElwee
I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir, by Keith McNally (Gallery Books, 303 pp., $29.99)On a recent Friday evening, I met a friend at the Lucy Mercer Bar, the upstairs lounge of Minetta Tavern, which opened last year in Washington, D.C.’s Union Market neighborhood. The lounge, named for Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s reported mistress, is resplendent in its décor. Its Victorian trappings, alluring paintings, and soft lighting evoke a fantasy.
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1 month 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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1 month 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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2 months 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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A compromise on a plan that initially would have turned Hershey into another lifeless, sprawling suburb (still a risk): https://t.co/ZHAET1bTYl
"In the words of Lubitsch...'There is Paramount Paris and Metro Paris, and of course the real Paris. Paramount’s is the most Parisian of all.'" https://t.co/AQmNribEkx
Congrats to @EdwardGLuce on today’s publication! Look forward to reading https://t.co/YogMUlgDk8