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Byline: Andre Leon Talley
Maureen Dowd's New York Times column is the first thing I read each Wednesday
and Saturday morning. I've never met her, but her appearances on Meet
the Press tell me this is a serious lady-who wears good pearls, goes
to the hairdresser, and follows high style. Dowd's new book, Are Men Necessary? (G. P. Putnam's Sons), is a series of essays on women and men-on beauty, relationships, power, female power, and her own personal journeys-all wrapped
in a pulp-noir cover.
I think Dowd is one of our most intelligent liberal thinkers. Here, she takes on heavy political issues one moment, and takes up the poison chalice of today's obsession with youth and Botox the ...