Volume 12, Number 3 · February 13, 1969
Inside Dope
By Ronald Steel
The Case Against Congress
by Drew Pearson, by Jack Anderson
Simon and Schuster, 473 pp., $5.95
Behind the Lines: The World of Drew Pearson
by Herman Klurfeld
Prentice-Hall, 281 pp., $6.95
Memoirs
by Arthur Krock
Funk & Wagnalls, 508 pp., $10.00
JFK and LBJ
by Tom Wicker
Morrow, 297 pp., $5.00
In our nation's capital, home of the jealously guarded secret and the official lie, uncommon numbers of talented men make their living and reputation as professional insiders. They range from lobbyists and court gossipers to the most widely read journalists. Theirs is an honorable, indeed an ancient, calling, as essential to plutocracies and dictatorships as to democracies. By bringing the human element into the power equation, they play a vital role in every social system.
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