For Rubén Blades on his birthday:
The Tailor of Washington
From a review of The Tailor of Panama:
“Pendel believes in the imaginary world he has created and pretty soon, it becomes a reality to him.”
Bush and former chief speechwriter Mike Gerson in TIME magazine, issue dated July 21, 2003. |
From Nashville City Paper, July 16, 2003:
“It is more and more clear, as former senior State Department official Greg Thielmann stated this week, that the Bush administration had a ‘faith-based policy’ on Iraq. They ‘believed’ Saddam was tied to bin Laden and still had weapons of mass destruction, so they manipulated or simply misstated the available evidence in order to make their case.”
— Bill Press
“Where is Evelyn Waugh when you need him?”
— Roger Kimball