DAVID MARGOLICK is a longtime contributing editor at Vanity Fair, where he writes about culture, the media, and politics. He served as national legal affairs editor at The New York Times, where he wrote the weekly At the Bar column for seven years. He is the author of Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink and Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Biography of a Song. He lives in New York.