Excerpt from "A Canadian Henry Adams" by David M. Shribman, published in The Globe and Mail on Saturday, December 2, 2006. 

"I said that [Allan] Gotlieb understood Washington better than most of its American denizens. Now that I have read these diaries, I think I was right two decades ago. In some ways this is the most insightful book about how Washington works since Henry Adams's classic Democracy "