Ear on Washington; A Chrestomathy of Scandal, Rumor & Gossip Among the Capital's Elite
Joseph Virgillo (Author photograph) New York: Arbor House, 1982. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 304 pages. The DJ has slight wear and soiling. Inscribed by the author on the fep. The inscription reads JULY 26, '82 To Joe Grano-- Saints preserve us -- + the antique boozerie. On with the fight! Love + best, Diana McLellan. X. The author spent ten years as a gossip columnist, "The Ear, " for the Washington Star, Washington Post, and Washington Times, sequentially. Outrageously well-informed, she exposed the high and low jinks of the nation's capital, the powerful, the mighty, the movers, the shakers, the manipulators, the givers and takers. Derived from a New York Times obituary: Diana McLellan was a grande dame of Washington gossip who perforated the pretentious, skewered the powerful and sometimes felt honor-bound to keep fact-checkers from coming between her bons mots and her “darlings,” as she called the devoted readers of her syndicated newspaper column. Mrs. McLellan established her reputation as the capital’s most delicious read during a relatively brief, cometlike span of 10 years. She created her arch, mischievous persona as chief writer of the column The Ear in The Washington Star in 1975, then moved to The Washington Post when The Star folded in 1981. After a year at The Post, she wrote a column called Diana Hears for The Washington Times until 1985 and then became an editor at Washingtonian magazine. In her gossip heyday at The Star, Mrs. McLellan was the must-read who chronicled the mating habits of cabinet secretaries, members of Congress and other “Terrifics,” as she referred to the constantly changing gallery of power players in town; explained the courtship vicissitudes of prominent couples like the Washington Post reporter Sally Quinn and her boss, Ben Bradlee; and generally treated the most status-conscious grandees in the world like another funny-hat crowd in town for a Moose meeting or a frozen-food convention. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: Politics & Government, Social Life, Upper Class, Washington, DC, Gossip Columnists, News Media, Washington Post, The Ear
ISBN: 0877953945
[Book #90898]
Price: $125.00