"'I can still see Wilkie,' says a contemporary, 'late for a speech, running through the library, raincoat over his shoulder, half done up, like his mind.'"
— Smith, Richard Norton (b. 1953)
Work Title
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Date
1982
Metaphor
"'I can still see Wilkie,' says a contemporary, 'late for a speech, running through the library, raincoat over his shoulder, half done up, like his mind.'"
Metaphor in Context
"I can still see Wilkie," says a contemporary, "late for a speech, running through the library, raincoat over his shoulder, half done up, like his mind." In stark contrast to Wilkie's carefree buoyancy, his chief rival remained in public what he was in the courtroom, a stalking panther in pursuit [...]
(p. 296)
(p. 296)
Categories
Provenance
Reading Thomas Mallon, "Can the G.O.P. Ever Reclaim Wendell Willkie’s Legacy?" New Yorker (September 18, 2018): 59-64, 62. <Link to www.newyorker.com>
Citation
Richard Norton Smith, Thomas E. Dewey and his Times (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982), 296.
Date of Entry
09/19/2018
