Schlesinger vs. Pynchon

[rich]

never trust anyone who wears a fucking bowtie

On 10/8/07, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> 'Journals: 1952-2000' by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
> A generous glimpse of the late historian's private thoughts --
> poignant, revealing and uncensored.
> By Douglas Brinkley
> October 7, 2007
> Penguin Press: 912 pp., $40
>
>
> When President Bill Clinton was undergoing his impeachment woes,
> true-blue allies were in short supply. As Republicans gleefully
> rallied around the Starr Report, many Democrats went into
> duck-and-cover mode. Denouncing impeachment as GOP overreach, they
> nevertheless admitted that Clinton's behavior was wrong. Not, however,
> two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
> With his able co-conspirator historians Sean Wilentz and C. Vann
> Woodward, Schlesinger organized Historians in Defense of the
> Constitution. Signed by more than 400 historians, the galvanic
> circular issued by Schlesinger and company claimed that Starr had
> lowered the impeachment bar into the rat-infested gutter.
>
> [...]
>
> Politics, however, was only one side of Schlesinger. His abiding love
> of fiction populates much of "Journals." Whether it's his dislike of
> Thomas Pynchon or his vicious feud with Gore Vidal or his kinship with
> Mailer, Schlesinger enjoys throwing himself in with the literati....
>
> http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/books/la-bk-brinkley7oct07,0,3999276.story
>