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Category: Sen. Ribicoff

June 4, 2009 Building collapses / Buying info / Jewish topics / Sen. Ribicoff / The Solomon Scandals

Budd Schulberg, ‘What Makes Sammy Run?’ and ‘The Solomon Scandals’

Originally posted on Aug. 6, 2009. Moved back to play up basics of The Solomon Scandals. – D.R. RIP, Budd

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March 3, 2009 Building collapses / GSA / Sen. Ribicoff / The Solomon Scandals

The IRS as fodder for David Foster Wallace and me

In my little overview of D.C. fiction, I quoted Jeffrey Charis-Carlson, a specialist in this area: "It takes a great

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March 2, 2009 Media / Sen. Ribicoff

The trash factor: A big reason why newspapers are in trouble? And how can they cope with it?

Despite the dark humor in my Washington newspaper novel, The Solomon Scandals is also an exercise in nostalgia—taking us back

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November 29, 2008 Sen. Ribicoff

Sen. Ribicoff’s spooky investment

Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, the late Connecticut senator who also served in President John F. Kennedy’s cabinet, secretly held a $20,000

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