Not long after he purchased The New Republic, Chris Hughes had lunch with me, as he was doing with quite a few journalists around Washington. At one point, he asked me who the best editor had been during my 16 years. I had worked for a half dozen editors, several of them great, but it was an easy question. I replied Frank Foer so quickly that Hughes appeared startled. I dont think my answer convinced Hughes to hire Foer as TNRs editor, because Im sure anybody else who worked with him said the same, and anyway, Frank Foer was born...
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