George

Indulging in my Mickey Kaus fix this morning, I was challenged to click a link.

Booker Prize: Ed Rollins and Arianna Huffington, together again! … [For some of why this is a potentially tense pairing, click here] … 2:01 A.M.

At that second link, I was pleased to find a juicy but very inside-the-Beltway blog post by Richard Bradley at HuffPo on the way-way-back backstory of Arianna Huffington’s apparent grudge against Tim Russert. I’m not very interested in that, but I was delighted to find a link to this, from 1996.

I forgot that Richard Bradley was at one time known as Richard Blow and that he was an editor at George. You can read all about the controversy surrounding his book American Son (about JFK Jr.) here.

One Amazon reviewer summarizes it [e.a.]:

This book is worth a read for those who just can’t get enough of the Kennedys, or about how “George” tried to make politics palatable to a mainstream audience by injecting celebrities into the editorial mix.

I wonder what JFK Jr. would make of this brave new media world. So much has changed. It’s hard to fathom that it’s only been 8 years since he died.