Q&A: Pulitzer Prize Winner David Auburn on His New Play, 'The Columnist'
In a city where influence and the perception of it remain some of the most important currency one can have, newspaperman and columnist Joseph Alsop wielded plenty of both in Washington, D.C., in his day.A New Deal Democrat who had the ear of President John F. Kennedy, Alsop was also a fierce hawk on foreign affairs, especially when it came to ramping up the Vietnam War and warning of the dangers of a communist threat…