Some Times in America Author:Alexander Chancellor In 1944, Alexander Chancellor's father, then the general manager of the Reuters international news agency, returned to wartime London with the record album of Oklahoma! - a gift that disposed an impressionable four-year-old Alex to a love affair with America. Still, he never dreamed, even after he arrived in Washington in the 1980s as chi... more »ef correspondent for the London Independent, that he would one day assume the monocle of the New Yorker's famous top-hatted mascot, Eustace Tilley, and edit the magazine's column "The Talk of the Town." While Chancellor's experiences with power and peril among the political and social elites of the American capital provide a bounty of amusing observations and lively anecdotes, they do not prepare him for the often exciting and frequently astonishing drama of Tina Brown's high-profile takeover of one of America's most august institutions. Brimming with news and gossip, intrigue and humor, minor tempests and huge embarrassments, this charming memoir of a modest Englishman's encounters with New York culture, not to mention the force of nature Tina Brown, casts contemporary America in a revelatory, fresh, amusing light.« less