The Story
“I was thrilled but puzzled. I barely knew Craig Whitney, the designated bureau chief, and had no idea why Max had chosen me, since I had never been an editor and was underqualified for so senior a job. I had spoken to Max at length only once when he was chief of the editorial page. I had gone to see him about the article that had led to my Holocaust book. His family had been driven out of Germany and been separated for seven years: his father in Russia, he and his mother in America. She had bar...ely managed to support the family as a seamstress in Brooklyn.
Max told me that my youth and enthusiasm would help energize a staid bureau. Washington reporters would relate to me, he added, since I had recently been one of them. And I was a woman. Max, acting in sync with Arthur Sulzberger’s stated commitment to gender and ethnic diversity, had already promoted several women and minorities to senior jobs.I But I was an anomaly; Max and Abe had been fierce rivals—the “not Abe,” Max called himself in his memoir.1 I was the only woman he promoted whom Abe had favored.MoreLess
Max told me that my youth and enthusiasm would help energize a staid bureau. Washington reporters would relate to me, he added, since I had recently been one of them. And I was a woman. Max, acting in sync with Arthur Sulzberger’s stated commitment to gender and ethnic diversity, had already promoted several women and minorities to senior jobs.I But I was an anomaly; Max and Abe had been fierce rivals—the “not Abe,” Max called himself in his memoir.1 I was the only woman he promoted whom Abe had favored.MoreLess
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