Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Greenberg, Lauder and Philadelphia developer Richard Fox, have served as shakers of the donor tree, persuading others to chip in. While they deny seeking personal gain, if Forbes wins, they still might hope for special treatment from his White House. (Or if he loses, from his magazine.) Charles Lewis, author of The Buying of the President, sees it this way: "Forbes is a millionaire who says he's not beholden to special interests who is now beholden to special interests...
Along with such Clinton campaign veterans as George Stephanopoulos and Mandy Grunwald, I spend my waking hours trying to decipher a political riddle far more baffling than Hillary Clinton's uncanny knack for picking winners in the commodities markets. Who is "Anonymous," the reclusive author of Primary Colors (Random House; $24), the sensitively wrought, deftly drawn, acid-tongued political novel that is a thinly veiled re-creation of the 1992 Democratic primary race...
...gave up in exhaustion, having deciphered three dozen names (an insider's Who's Who that includes Grunwald, James Carville, Harold Ickes, David Wilhelm, Stan Greenberg, Bob Kerrey, Tom Harkin, Paul Tsongas and Mario Cuomo). Some of the portraits are so deliciously vicious, I can only assume the author is settling personal scores. Take this description of the fictional stand-in for Hillary's much feared close friend Susan Thomases: "She was awful beyond imagining. She was one of those people with no sense of human spatial dynamics--always a step too close--and no sense of propriety...
...novel, the candidate, Clinton/Stanton, is priapic beyond even the wildest imaginings of the American Spectator. Clinton bashers will treasure the author's rendition of how Susan Stanton (Hillary) reacts to the news that Cashmere McLeod (Gennifer Flowers) had her husband on tape: "Susan hauled off and slapped him right across the face. It was a perfect shot, a resonant splat--God, she was even good at that...
Personal curiosity is just one reason why I so badly want Anonymous to turn himself or herself in. Primary Colors is simply too good a novel for its author to squander a career in politics or government service. Words cannot describe how much I wish I had written...