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I've seen the best of it

by Joseph Alsop · 1992

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Memoir by a gay American journalist and syndicated newspaper columnist from the 1930s through the 1970s, posthumously-published.

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Washington-insider Joseph was the brother of newspaper columnist and political analyst Stewart Alsop. Family ties to the Roosevelts. Republican, Vietnam war supporter, art connoisseur.

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biographybiographyMore like thisLess of this
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journalistsjournalistsMore like thisLess of this
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20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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long · 495 pages

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