Author of big, hot, cheap and right, and what america can learn from the strange genius of texas. [inaudible conversations] good morning. Im glen, the directer of the school of journalism at the university of texas at austin. I welcome you. Theres two superb authors here to morning to talk about the state of the union where we went wrong. We have 45 minutes, but could spend 45 hours on this. We better get rolling. Ill introduce the writers, ask questions, and i turn it over to you. I want to remind you when the session ends, two authors go to the signing tents, and theres a place to buy copies of the books and take them to the tent and have them signed. Follow us out when we leave. To the left, george packer, staff writer for the new yorker magazine, author of asass sins gate, named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times, written two novels and two Nonfiction Books, a play off broadway, and lives this brooklyn, new york, the new book called the unwinding inner hist
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Christina McDowell was on her way out of D.C. when she decided to write what could be the most delicious Washington novel in recent memory.
“I was in town for the Women s March, and on the plane back to Los Angeles, I got an email from my editor, who said, ‘What’s going on with the cave dwellers,” McDowell says, using a term that refers to longtime residents of the nation’s capital, the sort of people who stay in power no matter who’s living in the White House. “I had asked her if anyone had ever written a book about the sons and daughters of the most powerful figures here in this epicenter of institutional power, and she said, ‘You know, I think you re onto something.’”
Book World: All the wrongs of all the right people in D.C.
Ron Charles, The Washington Post
May 25, 2021
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By Christina McDowell
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Christina McDowell was used to getting extraordinary gifts from her father, Washington lawyer Thomas Prousalis Jr. To celebrate her graduation from high school, she got a BMW. One Christmas morning, he gave her a Hermés Birkin bag. And then there was that time McDowell discovered Dad had given her $100,000 in credit card debt.
McDowell wanted to ask him about that little problem, but she didn t know exactly where her father was, only that he would soon be assigned to a federal prison to serve a 57-month sentence for securities fraud. He was a convicted associate of Jordan Belfort, whom Leonardo DiCaprio portrayed in The Wolf of Wall Street.