The breezy memoir of a highflying journalist who, at 61, is still on top of her game … While she gets off satisfying shots at familiar targets, there aren’t quite enough incendiary new anecdotes to justify the book’s tantalizing title … A more substantial oversight is that her preoccupation with the personalities of the few at the top risks obscuring the incentive systems that keep elevating the unscrupulous to those positions … A lively read from a sui generis figure, provided you don’t mind rolling your eyes now and then at how often the moral of a given encounter turns out to be that Swisher was right all along.
