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Locked in the Cabinet , Robert Reich's new memoir of his years as labor secretary in the Clinton administration, is an engaging policy memoir: insightful, often witty and, what's most unusual for wonk kiss and tells, easy to read, partly because it's told in long stretches of well-written dialogue that add up to scores of novelistic scenes of Washington at work.
Joe Klein passed through the Phoenix / Real Paper scene, as did The New Yorker 's David Denby, the Times ' Frank Rich, Newsweek 's David Ansen, film critic turned Vanity Fair / New Yorker profiler turned Lolita screenwriter Stephen Schiff, journalist/wonk Sidney Blumenthal, and
Newsweek 's ebullient cover story calls Hillary Clinton "the hottest commodity in American public life," urging her to run because: 1) She has sacrificed enough of her own ambitions for her husband's career; 2) she's a born policy wonk; and 3) it would strengthen the Clintons' marriage.
But you still have to wonder how such a smart policy wonk can fail to be bothered by the perversities and complications of the tax code.
(He's not much of a policy wonk, however.)