The Shindigger

Lehman Alone: Vanity Fair’s Vicky Wards Off Well-Wishers With Formidable Frock

Old media overtook the Four Seasons restaurant on Wednesday, April 6, celebrating the release of Vanity Fair contributing editor Vicky Ward’s book The Devil’s Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers, wherein the Cambridge-bred beauty, who recently split from her husband, Matthew Doull, chronicles the demise of the ill-fated investment Read More

Hors D’Oeuvres in the Devil’s Den

On an unseasonably warm April evening at the Four Seasons restaurant—not to be confused with the hotel five blocks north—a bastion of old media congregated to celebrate the release of Vicky Ward‘s debut novel, The Devil’s Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers. In her revealing roman à clef, the Read More

In-Laws Monica Crowley and Alan Colmes Planning Live Debates

“I adore Alan,” said Monica Crowley. “I think his politics are insane. But he is one of my best friends.”

Ms. Crowley, the conservative syndicated radio host, Fox News contributor, and McLaughlin Group regular was speaking to The Observer on Thursday afternoon about her liberal friend and TV sparring partner Alan Colmes.

In recent months, Read More

Nixon and Another Monica: His Girl Friday Writes Again

Nixon in Winter , by Monica Crowley. Random House, 428 pages, $30.

Richard Nixon performed a Shakespearean lead in every American comedy-drama from the Cold War through Vietnam, dueling with Nikita Khrushchev, Mao Zedong, John F. Kennedy and Katharine Graham. But he ended his days exiled in New Jersey, playing Dr. Johnson to a Boswell Read More