Writer and Cultural Commentator

Julia Reed

1 article 1997

Julia Reed was a prominent Southern writer, journalist, and author known for her work at Vogue, Newsweek, and The New York Times Magazine. She wrote extensively about politics, culture, food, and life in the American South. She contributed a piece to The Weekly Standard in 1997.

THE SON ALSO RISES

February 10, 1997 · Blog

I first met George W. Bush in 1976 at a very extravagant and fairly wild wedding in the Mississippi Delta. He was eight years out of Yale then and working in the oil business in Midland, Texas. His father was serving as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and so the Bush name was not yet a…