Books, Arts & Manners: Wages of Spin

Spin Cycle: Inside the Clinton Propaganda Machine, by Howard Kurtz (Free Press, 324 pp., $25)

HOWARD Kurtz, the Washington Post’s media critic, had exclusive access to the White House press operation when he researched this book, and it shows. When he explains how White House press secretary Mike McCurry “felt” about some development, there is no doubt that the

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Ramesh Ponnuru

Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

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Spin Cycle: Inside the Clinton Propaganda Machine, by Howard Kurtz (Free Press, 324 pp., $25)

HOWARD Kurtz, the Washington Post’s media critic, had exclusive access to the White House press operation when he researched this book, and it shows. When he explains how White House press secretary Mike McCurry “felt” about some development, there is no doubt that the