BOOK REVIEW: 'The Club' by Leo Damorosch

THE CLUB: JOHNSON, BOSWELL, AND THE FRIENDS WHO SHAPED AN AGE

By Leo Damrosch

Yale University Press, $30, 473 pages

They don't make clubs like they used to. Nearly 50 years ago, I remember hearing about a fellow member of the National Press Club who, though quite well-heeled, put up ...