As recently as March, Steven Rattner, the former private equity kingpin and Obama administration car czar, was having an unpleasant time with Overhaul, his book on the emergency auto rescue. “Writing books is a bear. It’s just really hard work. And he hasn’t done it before,” Mark Green, who’d talked to him about the struggle, Read More
As You Like It
“I am not the honoree!” protested the handsome co-president and C.O.O. of Bear Stearns, Warren Spector, to a group of friends who thought otherwise. “When Ken Lerer”—the former AOL Time Warner exec and sluggish Huffington Post blogger—“stepped down,” he shrugged, “I was just ready to step up.”
Last week, the 50th Read More
What happened to Bridgehampton’s blue-blood polo games? And what have the young turks, with their rap music and their hussies, done with all the old bluebloods? Says Hamptons chronicler Steven Gaines, “I realized that the people we used to call society are almost completely dead.”
In today’s Transom, bizarrely—err, intentionally! Right!—The Transom goes Read More
