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Leonard, John Dillon was born on February 25, 1939 in Washington, District of Columbia.
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Far more than simple political commentary, The Last Innocent White Man in America is a passionate marriage of politics and literature that transcends the daily headlines to get at how we imagine ourselves in history. John Leonard is an unrepentant liberal, dissident, scourge, and media critic par excellence. Whether he's writing about bankers or AIDS, Congress or television, Salman Rushdie or Ed Koch, Leonard will make you stop, think, and laugh.
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John Leonard, “the fastest wit in the East” (The New York Times Book Review), is back with the offbeat, wide-ranging style that earned his last book, When the Kissing Had to Stop, a place among the Voice Literary Supplement’s “25 Favorites of 1999.” Now, with an eye to the social and political experience of writers, Leonard adopts a broad definition of exile. He addresses Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone, where exile manifests itself in solitary bowling, a reflection of a declining sense of community. He considers Salman Rushdie as rock’n’roll Orpheus, who—after ten years in fatwa-enforced exile—bears a striking resemblance to his continually disappearing characters. And Leonard also explores Primo Levi’s exile of survival, Bruce Chatwin’s self-imposed exile in travel, as well as the work of Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, Phillip Roth, Barbara Kingsolver, and Don DeLillo, among others. As always, Leonard’s writing jumps off the page, engaging the reader in what the Washington Post calls his “laugh-out-loud magic with words.”
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Leonard, John Dillon was born on February 25, 1939 in Washington, District of Columbia.
Attended, Harvard University. Bachelor, University California Berkeley.
Former writer National Review Magazine. Former director drama and literature KPFA Radio. Literature critic New York Times Book Review, 1967—1971, from 1975, executive editor, 1971—1975.
Co-editor, books section The Nation Magazine, 1995—1998.
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Married Christiana Morison (divorced). Children: Andrew, Amy. Married Sue Leonard; 1 stepchild Jen Nessel.