New York Magazine: August 10, 2009 Issue

Table of Contents

August 10, 2009

Cover Story

The Message Is the Message

Barack Obama’s flood-the-zone media strategy is more than just a sales tactic. By Jennifer Senior

On the Cover: Illustration by Sean McCabe.

Features

Visiting Day

It’s been 21 days since campers first arrived at Trail’s End.
Exit the Czar

Steve Rattner, the journalist turned banker turned Car Czar, steered his way to the pinnacle of the New York–Washington elite.
Talk to the Hand

Cesar Sala and Satish Jagnandan are the Nadal and Federer of handball. That much, the sport’s alterkockers agree on.

Strategist

Departments

Intelligencer

Culture

Columns

Beane Town

Billy Beane, the Moneyball guru, has nowhere to go with the Oakland A’s. Who needs a general manager?

Agenda

The Carting Industry

Bar Breton’s Cyril Renaud aims to lure passersby with ice cream from his new sidewalk stand.