> Oh please. Allow the guy's ego a little room to stretch. Unlike me, he's not
> always right, but he's done so much good stuff over the last 40 years
> (American Power and the New Mandarins was pub'd in 1969) that I don't
> begrudge him a little grandiosity, even if it doesn't survive factchecking.
So the ultimate reward for 40 years of antistatist work is to gain an audience with the personifications of the state? Got it.