There is a story about a man who shows his friend through his new house. “This is the living room, here is the dining room. This is the Florida room,” he says, “and that is my wife” and there she is sitting on the love seat just kissing up a storm with another man. And they go on into
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“The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know.” John Gunther once wrote. “The second is to find out who will tell you.” Gunther, who died in 1970, was one of the 20th century’s most ambitious and prolific journalists: He knew what he wanted to know, found out who would tell him, and told the rest of us in Inside Europe, Inside U.S.A.,
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