When Henry Fairlie came to America, the editors of this magazine deemed his arrival sufficiently momentous to run a page-long story about him. The 42-year-old writer had been called “the most controversial political journalist in England” and “the first of the Angry Young Men” for his piercing and heterodox columns in the British press—including his most celebrated one, in which he coined the term “the establishment.” After his 1966 move to the United States, he would write some of the liveliest and most provocative essays of his time about what NEWSWEEK called “the American scene.”
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