Volume 55, Number 12 · July 17, 2008
Not So Dangerous Liaisons
By Russell Baker
My Three Fathers: And the Elegant Deceptions of My Mother, Susan Mary Alsop
by William S. Patten
PublicAffairs, 379 pp., $27.95
Two of Bill Patten's three fathers were Alfred Duff Cooper and Joseph Alsop. What memoirist could ask for more? Duff and Joe, as they were known in the international set of their day, now seem like characters from an Evelyn Waugh novel about the batty doings of the very best people.
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