Did you read Rick Brookhiser’s review of Hendrik Hertzberg’s new book in the New York Times Review of Books? It begins:

When I picked up this book, I hoped I would find a description I have remembered, almost word for word, since I last read it, in Hendrik Hertzberg’s coverage of the 1988 presidential campaign in The New Republic. It’s here, on Page 192. ”Richard Gephardt . . . puts me in mind, unreasonably to be sure, of an earthling whose body has been taken over by space aliens. I keep expecting him to reach under his chin and peel back that immobile, monochromatic, oddly smooth face to reveal the lizard beneath.” As a senior editor of National Review who was also covering that campaign, I wished I’d written that.