American Abroad
December 8, 2003 ·
Alan Pell Crawford, Magazine, Books and Arts
Jefferson's Demons
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,"…