Books, Arts & Manners: A Noisy Disaster

The Liberal Crack-Up, by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. (Simon & Schuster, 256 pp., $16.95)

WE grow old. It seems only yesterday-—the Western White House was in San Clemente and George McGovern was assailing the Evil Empire (the U.S., of course)—that Bob Tyrrell was editing The Alternative as the nouvel enfant terrible of the libertarian Right. Now The Alternative has become an American Spectator, Jane Fonda is touting the virtue of burning calories, not bras, and our enfant terrible has emerged, full blown, as a middle-aged curmudgeon.

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The Liberal Crack-Up, by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. (Simon & Schuster, 256 pp., $16.95)

WE grow old. It seems only yesterday-—the Western White House was in San Clemente and George McGovern was assailing the Evil Empire (the U.S., of course)—that Bob Tyrrell was editing The Alternative as the nouvel enfant terrible of the libertarian Right. Now The Alternative has become an American Spectator, Jane Fonda is touting the virtue of burning calories, not bras, and our enfant terrible has emerged, full blown, as a middle-aged curmudgeon.