The Boston Globe, April 21st, 1999
Just the other day someone asked me what I did during my recent fellowship at Stanford University. I responded with the usual noises about studying psychology and going to the opera. But the truthful answer would have been: I was researching Thorstein Veblen's sex life. Not every distinguished man's sex life is worth researching, as I learned while reading Evan Thomas's biography of superlawyer Edward Bennett Williams. The extramarital dalliances (in the company of the sainted Joe DiMaggio) of a repressed Catholic who attended Mass every morning make for dull fare. But Veblen, the enfant terri...
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