Hogshit and Chickenshit
Michael Rogin, 1 August 1996
Washington Babylon
by Alexander Cockburn and Ken Silverstein.
Verso, 316 pp., £31.95, May 1996,1 85984 092 2 Show More
by Alexander Cockburn and Ken Silverstein.
Verso, 316 pp., £31.95, May 1996,
“... there is a politics beneath the scandal-mongering of Washington Babylon, but whereas Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, the gossip columnists who wrote Washington Confidential, served the McCarthyite Right, Washington Babylon’s militants spread gossip for the populist Left. Cockburn and Silverstein personalise politics to underline the gap between an ... ”