When Joseph Alsop designed this modern cinder-block house in Georgetown’s East Village in 1949, he deliberately thumbed his nose at the stately traditional neighborhood.

”I`ve Seen the Best of It” By Joseph W. Alsop with Adam Platt Norton, 495 pages, $29.95 Joseph Alsop was a Connecticut Yankee and distant cousin of Franklin Roosevelt who had the good fortune ...

John Lithgow stars as powerful mid-century Washington political journalist Joseph Alsop in this new biographical drama by Pulitzer and Tony-winning "Proof" playwright David Auburn.

Philip Earl Johnson stars as Joseph Alsop in “The Columnist,” an American Blues Theater production. (Photo: Johnny Knight) Share On the very day I caught the American Blues Theater production ...

BEVERLY, Mass. — Joseph Wright Alsop VI was 14 years old when he met the future president of the United States. Alsop was the son and nephew of influential newspaper columnists Stewart and ...

NEW YORK — It’s obvious why playwright David Auburn was so fascinated by the story of journalist Joseph Alsop. Just look at some of the elements: enormous political influence, a key role in ...

BEVERLY, Mass. — Joseph Wright Alsop VI was 14 years old when he met the future president of the United States. ... the diary will be displayed in his home in toney Beverly Farms, Massachusetts.

Alsop pursued the contrasts to Dhahran, where Saudi Arabian workmen drew top pay as technicians at Aramco’s vast refinery while some of their countrymen bought and sold slaves ($150 for an able ...