Title

Big babies

Description

A collection of Michael Kinsley's writings pertaining to policy issues, presidential politics, the culture of Washington, the media, film, television, and book publishing.

Identifier

613597

688124526

Creator

Kinsley, Michael E

Format

1st ed.

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

1995

Program air date: January 21, 1996

Publisher

W. Morrow and Co.

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

Rights

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Transcription of Annotations

Notes on front endpapers: Voters are idiots p. 57. No dedication--The New Republic-Marty and Anne Peretz. Time-NR-W.P.-The New Yorker-Unpublished-WSJ. Jan 20, 1986-Mar 27, 1995 . Tocqueville. Cranbrook Prep School in Detroit. You search Nexis a lot--why--what is it. Great American G-spot-greed. The Rich--Thorstein Veblen p. 42 conspicuous consumption. 1989-wrote for the Economist. Scadan freude, zeitgeist. All politicians lie p. 247. Appearance of impropriety p. 177. political chat and grunt shows. Populism p. 285. Supports Thatcher p. 67. Lamb totals the number of essays at the bottom of each of the Contents pages and totals them (113) on the last. Underlinings/Notes: Notes: "Humor," "despise," "Gore," "Reagan," "Reagan/Sidney," "Harvard Law Review," "Mikva," "Gorbachev/Trump," "book to peddle," "bitchiness," "Bob Strauss," "99% hot air," "triple mileage," "rip-offs," "g-spot greed," "Don Regan's memoirs," "The rich, Veblen, conspicuous consumption," "Kissinger, Vance," "Chicken Hawks," "Kinsley high draft number," "sex and TV," "Bush, Dukakis class warfare," "Bill Bennett smart people," "voters are idiots," "no beliefs," "Canada," "Michael sell kidney for 2 mil.," "admires Thatcher," "self-discipline v. self-indulgence," "she's a leader," "she win again/wrong," "London," "flag burning," "cocaine use dropping," "C-Span Commons," "dollar coin," "vacations," "Economist 5 week holiday," "American, British, Japanese," "sound bite," "TV reporter bias," "politically correct," "PC hysteria," "newspaper corrections," "corrections," "summer scandals," "Clarence Thomas," "Alan Dershowitz, Chutzpah," "Aid to Israel in past 25 years," "check-kiting," "citizens blame politicians," "causes," "CIA," "permanent political class," "Clarence Thomas, Roe v. Wade," "Buchanan," "Anti-Semitism," "Rhodes," "Rhodes scholars," "country going down a rathole," "Reagan-a brilliant liar," "Perot...hurt B. Clinton," "soft spot," "would vote for Perot over Bush," "family values," "Perot on Today Show," "exit polls," "spin," "Bush and church," "blurb for Reed's book," "Valentines," "Carville got Kinsley to write a column," "Newt--a phony," "Foreign P." Underlinings: Lamb underscores Kinsley's musings on Republicans, Liberals, politicians including Gore and Reagan, pundits, ethnic jokes, memoirs, wealth, and morals.