Crazy Rhythm: From Brooklyn And Jazz To Nixon’s White House, Watergate, And Beyond

468 Pages·2001·55.797 MB·English

by  Leonard Garment

An eloquent memoir'
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'I zipped through Crazy Rhythm in record time and enjoyed every last page." Saul Bellow

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My Journey from Brooklyn, Jazz, and
Wall Street to Nixon's White House, Watergate,
and Beyond
. . .
LEONARD GARMENT
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Epilogue copyright©2001 by Leonard Garment
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To the memory of my friend John Osborne, a
lucid and scrupulous reporter of the Nixon
years for The NewRepublic, who insisted that
sooner or later I must tell my own story
And for my wife, Suzanne, a similarly
scrupulous journalist, who made it possible
for me to present a coherent account of a
sometimes incoherent life

Only he who says "in spite of all"
has the calling of politics.
-MAX WEBER, Politics as a Vocation