American Abroad
December 8, 2003 · Alan Pell Crawford, Magazine, Books and Arts
Jefferson's Demons
Author and Cultural Commentator
Alan Pell Crawford
2 articles 1999–2003
Alan Pell Crawford is an author and journalist whose writing has explored American culture and politics. He is known for his books on American history and political movements. He contributed essays and cultural commentary to The Weekly Standard between 1999 and 2003.
OUT WITH THE IN-CROWD
February 15, 1999 · Alan Pell Crawford, Magazine, Books and Arts
The mural in the lobby of the New York hotel where the Algonquin Round Table held forth shows how "self-assured" its members were, the New Yorker recently reported. "Sullenly self-regarding" may be more apt. Edmund Wilson, who knew them all, found the so-called Vicious Circle "rather tiresome,"…