'The Columnist' provides insightful look at D.C. journalist Joseph Alsop
The year 1935 marked the Washington arrival of Joseph Wright Alsop V, a hefty, amusing, arrogant, 25-year-old reporter for the old New York Herald Tribune who quickly managed to take the town by storm. It helped that the occupants of the White House were known to the young man affectionately as "Cousin Franklin" and "Cousin Eleanor," and they weren't above slipping juicy morsels of inside information to their blood r…
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