Finding Magic<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0<\/i>explaining how Quinn transformed society reporting to become \u201cone of the channels through which the revolution of the 1960s entered Washington and remade the city and American politics.\u201d<\/p>\nWhen Quinn got started, \u201csociety reporters were deferential matrons who acted less as reporters than protectors; they might know the town\u2019s salacious secrets but would never think of printing them. Quinn liberated herself from such scruples. She revolutionized the society beat. The journalist became part activist, part tattletale.\u201d<\/p>\n
He describes her method as \u201ca Heimlich maneuver; it was to Sally that Henry Kissinger confessed to being a \u2018secret swinger\u2019 and lived to regret it. Story by story, snicker by snicker, Sally and her peers dismantled the postwar Washington establishment. The establishment was too tired to put up much of a fight.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ferguson observes that Quinn has been taken for an anti-elitist, but argues \u201cShe was nothing of the sort. She just favored a different kind of elite \u2013 one whose ranks were filled with people like her. By the time the Watergate scandal had laid waste to the capital, the city\u2019s aristocracy had been remade by journalists for journalists, along with the politicians that journalists found appealing.\u201d<\/p>\n
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