O MY NEWARK!
June 2, 1997 · Magazine, David Grann, Books and Arts
Philip Roth
Journalist and Bestselling Author
David Grann
6 articles 1995–1997
David Grann is a staff writer at The New Yorker and bestselling author known for books such as *Killers of the Flower Moon* and *The Lost City of Z*. Early in his career, he contributed political and cultural commentary to The Weekly Standard in the mid-1990s, writing about figures like Haley Barbour and Sam Nunn as well as pieces on ethics reform and urban life.
THE BARBOUR OF THE HILL
December 2, 1996 · Blog, David Grann
SOMETIMES, LATE AT NIGHT, when Bob Dole was plunging off podiums, labor was blacklisting Republican candidates, and his onetime loyal allies were talking about impaling him, Haley Barbour reached into the bottom of his office closet and pulled out a bottle of Maker's Mark whiskey. There, surrounded…
HALEY BARBOUR, RIVERBOAT GAMBLER
August 19, 1996 · David Grann, Blog
In the fall of 1995, when Democrats were running ads hammering Ohio Republican congressman Bob Ney for cutting Medicare, Ney cornered Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour and asked why the GOP hadn't countered with a blitzkrieg of its own. "Where are the RNC ads?" Ney asked.
OH, STOP YOUR WHlNlNG
January 15, 1996 · Magazine, David Grann
DESPITE WHAT ENID WALDHOLTZ MAY THINK, life is not the Jenny Jones program. Her five-hour, teary-eyed press conference last month deserves an Emmy for stamina and strength, but in presenting herself as her husband's unwitting victim she failed the most important test of a politician: personal…
KILL THE ETHICS COMMITTEES
November 20, 1995 · Magazine, David Grann
THE TRIAL OF THE CENTURY in Los Angeles over-shadowed its political equivfilent in Washington: the forced resignation of Sen. Bob Packwood. The Oregonian lothario exited Congress quietly on October 1. There were no crowds or cameras, no white vans, but there was a deliciods double irony at work.…
NUNN DARES NOT TREAD
October 23, 1995 · Magazine, David Grann
THE DEMOCRATS' LAST HOPE may be a middle-aged mother from the Rust Belt. She is Debbie Stabenow, a 45-year-old career state legislator who traveled last week from her Michigan home to the Democratic National Headquarters in Washington, D.C., to consider a run for Congress. "I've never been afraid…