GOSSIP, POWER, AND THE CULTURE OF CELEBRITY

After reading Neal Gabbler, Winchell: Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity

After reading Neal Gabler, Winchell: Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity

Early last spring, the sharks were concluding in on Hillary Rodham Clinton. Damaged first by accusations about her husband's near-compulsive infidelity and then by accusations about her own economic past, Mrs. Clinton had to assault back. But how? Although she would subsequent call a much-praised prescribed press seminar, the First Lady's public relatives attack in those bleak days amounted to hosting exclusive teas not with Johnny Apple of the Times or with ...