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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

RE BARBARA TUCHMAN RE BROOKS RE BUSINESS MEN AS POLITICIANS

http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2973239501462830480&postID=1183843110854888201

She has an important passage, in The Proud Tower HC, Chapter 3 entitled End of a Dream, the first several pages, p. 117-119, paragraph beginning "Although his roots...." re the abandonment of politics by the landed aristocracy here, such as it was, and the implications for politics for everyone.


Those concerned with politics should be familiar with the theme struck there.


It explains, perhaps better than later works, like E J Dionne's, etc., why things don't quite work here at all, 


and never have.

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