--My thoughts: This seems a tad bit judgemental, does it not? Breslin writes:
All my life, I have judged everybody by whether or not he uses "between you and I." It is the one most revealing mistake in the English language. If the person says, "between you and I," then I know he is uneducated, no matter what kind of paper is framed on his wall, and I also know that he is essentially a fool.
Breslin was describing former NY governor Hugh Carey here, but it reminds me of Trump:
Once every many years, nay, once every many decades, one will come along like this, a dream character in dancing pumps, splashing champagne all over his head, a mind made of sky, doing so many things at once that you simply don't know where to begin when telling them.
When Robert Moses built Jones Beach, he had the Parkway overpasses built so low that a bus from Harlem loses its roof if it tries to take people to the beach.
The truth is that Breslin eats, but in places of his choosing with his kind of people. "I do not go into French places," he explains, "because the food is intolerable." What he likes are Italian joints, many of them in the boroughs, where "the customers slap the cook if the food is not exquisite."
I received two books for Christmas - one from The American, and this one from my dad. His favourite journalist. I love gifts like this.