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050			_aF 201 _b.W674 2005
100			_aWilliams, Marjorie, _d1958-2005. _9110546
245		4	_aThe woman at the Washington Zoo : _bwritings on politics, family, and fate / _cby Marjorie Williams ; edited by Timothy Noah.
260			_aNew York : _bPublicAffairs, _cc2005.
300			_axvi, 365 p. _c24 cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
520			_aThis collection--at once insightful, funny and sad--digs into the psyche of the nation's capital. Marjorie Williams knew Washington from top to bottom. Beloved for her sharp analysis, elegant prose and exceptional ability to intuit character, Williams wrote political profiles for the Washington Post and Vanity Fair that came to be considered the final word on the capital's most powerful figures. Her accounts of playing ping-pong with Richard Darman, of Barbara Bush's stepmother quaking with fear at the mere thought of angering the First Lady, and of Bill Clinton angrily telling Al Gore why he failed to win the presidency--to name just three treasures collected here--open a window on a human reality behind Washington's determinedly blank façade. During her last years, she wrote about her own mortality as she battled liver cancer, using this harrowing experience to illuminate larger points about the nature of power and the randomness of life.--From publisher description.
650			_aPolitical culture _zUnited States _995144
650			_aPolitical culture _zWashington (D.C.) _9110547
650			_aPoliticians _zUnited States _994892
650			_aWomen journalists _zUnited States _9110548
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