Books

April, 1976

In his first book, a biography of George S. Kaufman, Howard Teichmann demonstrated a profound admiration not only for his subject but for all the men and women who formed that august clan of wiseacres known to us as the Algonquin Round Table. So it comes as little surprise that Teichmann's second book, Smart Aleck (Morrow), demonstrates a similarly profound admiration, bordering on downright reverence, for the alleged founder of the renowned Table, Alexander Woollcott. Reverence is not a good at...