With a style that manages, somehow, to be both breezy and erudite, Eric Felten plumbs the complexities of a quality that's easy to extol and hard to live. Felten complements a dazzling range of sources, from St. Paul to Don Corleone, with his own great wit and insight to produce not just an exegesis on loyalty in a variety of settings, but what amounts to a primer on human nature itself.
A distillation, if I may put it like that, of his celebrated Wall Street Journal column of the same name...by far the wittiest and the most comprehensive study of the subject since the author of Lucky Jim laid down his pen.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
A loud and lively call for Congress to resume its legislative task and to ignore the temptation to delegate and meddle. Felten's book is full of spirit and sparkle, provocative, and fully in tune with demands in our time for change in government.
HARVEY C. MANSFIELD, JR
DAVID MARGOLICK
A prolific and versatile journalist and author, Eric Felten is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, where he wrote the James Beard Award-winning cocktail column, "How's Your Drink?" and the culture columns De Gustibus and Postmodern Times. He has written for national and international publications, including People magazine, National Geographic Traveler, Reader's Digest, Washingtonian, The Weekly Standard, The Daily Beast, National Review, Humanities, and Philanthropy
Eric Felten is the author of three books, a guide to the history and culture of cocktails, How's Your Drink?, a critique of Congress, The Ruling Class, and a meditation on that most vexing of virtues, Loyalty.
He has appeared on PBS, NBC, Fox News, NPR, MSNBC, VOA, Canadian Broadcasting and Australian Broadcasting, among others.