> He had always believed that describing the world was one way to change
> it. But thereís a bedrock of exhaustion in this book, the idea that
> mustering facts and making arguments may not be sufficient to serve
> the dynasty its just desserts. Heís not an apostate, exactly; itís the
> world thatís moved on."
Well, if he thought that a Keven Phillips book would change the world, he is suffering from a wee bit of egomania, no?
If he wants the political state of the country to go back to that of the FDR era (which at this point doesn't look like too bad an idea), he should be hoping for economic conditions as depressed as that era and a politician as skilled as FDR, with as impressive a patrician image and as inept an opponent as Hoover. Then he can write a world-changing book, perhaps.
Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________________ A gentleman haranguing on the perfection of our law, and that it was equally open to the poor and the rich, was answered by another, 'So is the London Tavern.' -- "Tom Paine's Jests..." (1794); also attr. to John Horne Tooke (1736-1812) by Hazlitt