Matters of State

by Hamburger, Philip

• ISBN13: 9781582430843
• ISBN10: 1582430845
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Counterpoint

Author Biography

Philip Hamburger has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1939. He is the recipient of the 1994 George Polk Career Award. His work has also appeared in Life and The New York Times Book Review

Table of Contents

Foreword	xv
Prologue: Random Notes on Washington, D.C.	xvii
The Great Judge
Learned Hand 1946	1	(12)
Patience and Fortitude
Fiorello LaGuardia	13	(3)
Friends Talking in the Night
William O'Dwyer	16	(11)
The Idea is Everything
Trygve Lie	27	(4)
Sculling on the Schuylkill
Republican Convention 1948	31	(4)
HQ.
Thomas Dewey	35	(4)
Ball
Truman Inauguration	39	(3)
Mr. Secretary
Dean Acheson	42	(35)
Please Clear the Aisles
GOP Convention 1952	77	(4)
Back to Chicago
Democratic Convention 1952	81	(4)
Long Wait
Dwight Eisenhower	85	(4)
Man from Wisconsin
Joseph McCarthy	89	(4)
Brain
Eisenhower election 1956	93	(4)
The Mayor
Robert Wagner 1957	97	(4)
Lonely Day
Kennedy election 1960	101	(3)
Great Day
Johnson Inauguratio 1965	104	(4)
First Nixon Inaugural
Richard Nixon	108	(6)
Hand on Cardozo
Learned Hand 1970	114	(2)
Mass in Time of War
Nixon's second Inauguratio 1973	116	(18)
Carter Inauguration
Carter	134	(6)
First Reagan Inauguration
Reagan	140	(6)
We Have Nothing to Fear...
FDR retrospective 1983	146	(5)
Quadrennial
Bush Inauguration 1989	151	(4)
One Man's Vote
Clinton election 1992	155	(3)
Clinton Inauguration
Clinton	158	(6)
Vermeer Time
Postscript 1996	164