Raymond Walter Apple Jr., known to all as "Johnny," but bylined as R.W. Apple Jr., was an associate editor at The New York Times, where he wrote on a variety of subjects, most notably politics, travel, and food... (wikipedia)
The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.
Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.
Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.
Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.