The Georgetown name game: Roffman, Rothman, Solomon and The Georgetowner
Two kinds of parties show up in The Solomon Scandals, my D.C. media novel: the private variety (“party-parties”) and “name-in-the-paper
The nuts and bolts of bribing a bureaucrat—or at least the guy in the photo
How to bribe a corrupt bureaucrat? No need for cash in brown bags. In The Solomon Scandals I tell of
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tax returns, D.C.’s would-be Gatsbys, and the new defense scandals
The Solomon Scandals mentions F. Scott Fitzgerald—rather fittingly, given his family’s ties with the Washington area, the main setting of
I meet the grandson of Upton Sinclair’s private secretary—and reflect on today’s super-rich: Just like Sinclair’s 1908 book?
I’d written the October 19th post—on The Money Changers, the 1908 Upton Sinclair classic—just before I mentioned it to Ted
Free Upton Sinclair classic tells how Wall Street manipulators can cheat the rest of us
Sy Solomon’s specialty is ripping off the taxpayers—through shoddy construction practices in an IRS-occupied building and other projects. If, however,
Solomon Scandals readable on new global Kindle—or you can buy the paperback, even if you’re outside the U.S.
The Kindle e-book reader is going global, with official support for 100+ countries, and there’s also a price drop to
Tribune Company execs act like thieves in Scandals
Jon Stone, the reporter in The Solomon Scandals, wouldn’t just be investigating major financial crimes outside his newspaper if he
D.C.’s power lunchrooms: Then and now
The Solomon Scandals mentions the Sans Souci, where so many members of the D.C. elite plotted and dined. In real life
‘The Solomon Scandals’ vs. Dan Brown’s latest, ‘The Lost Symbol’: Same city, different books
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David Rothman at Large 