The Press: Great Game for Sale

When Theodore Roosevelt rough-rode up San Juan Hill, Frank Richardson Kent was starting as a political reporter on the Baltimore Sim. Today this small, smart newshawk is one of the country's most famed commentators on political Washington. No key-hole gossip, he makes Democrats and Republicans alike quake with his breezy invective and the tart sagacity he packs into his daily column, "The Great Game of Politics," is quoted from ocean to ocean. Yet until lately Frank Kent could be read in full nowhere except in...

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