The Center: People and Power in Political Washington

A portrait of Washington politics during one of the most turbulent eras in American history by the twentieth century's premier US government insider.

During his three decades as a journalist and political pundit for the New York Herald Tribune and Newsweek magazine, Stewart Alsop covered many of the defining historical events of mid-to-late twentieth-century America, from the post-World War II boom and the Red Scare to the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban missile crisis, the Kennedy assassination, ...