Heard Marjorie Williams was great, picked this up, but was not blown away. The profiles are well written and interesting, but there was not a lot more than that. I see comments raving about The Woman at the Washington Zoo though, so I'll have to give that one a shot. Most of the pieces were written in the 80s/90s, so there was a personal layer of nostalgia to the whole thing. I don't know that much about politics of the era, but it's interesting to see how many names are still relevant. I would be interested to read some of her pieces of the people in power now--wish she was still with us.