Volume 24, Number 19 · November 24, 1977

A Hard Case

By Garry Wills
Clearing the Air
by Daniel Schorr

Houghton Mifflin, 333 pp., $11.95

Daniel Schorr, certain of his peers have always suspected, was the wrong guy in the right place; doing some necessary things, even when he made an ass of himself in the process. Who, after all, can dislike a man called 'Killer Schorr' by a professional killer? Schorr became indispensable because so many unpalatable people put him high on their enemies lists.



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