Marc Weingarten is a freelance writer in Los Angeles. He is the author of The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight about Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion, and the other practitioners of what would become the New Journalism.
Breaking some of the rules made Tom Wolfe a better observer.
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Supremely Contentious
The Transformation of “Advice and Consent”
By Meredith Hindley
Who Was Westbrook Pegler?
The original right-wing takedown artist
By David Witwer
The Strange Politics of Gertrude Stein
Was the den mother of modernism a fascist?
By Barbara Will
Friends of Rousseau
Some of the people he has influenced don't even realize it.
By Leo Damrosch
The Other Jefferson Davis
The U.S. Capitol, as we know it today, would never have existed without Jefferson Davis.
By Guy Gugliotta
