Would liberals favoring Clinton over Sanders in 2016 have rooted for Lincoln’s opponent in 1858? My colleague Corey Robin wrote a column earlier this week on the fallacies and forgetfulness of liberal Democrats who continue to favor Hillary Clinton for the party’s Presidential nominee. At this point the liberal Democrat case for Clinton essentially comes down to the (dubious) notion […]
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Henry Adams’s Democracy: An American Novel, was first published anonymously in 1880. Its author never publicly acknowledged it as his work. (It goes unmentioned in Adams’s autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams, published after his death in 1918). One hundred thirty-five years later, it retains its hold on readers’ imagination, a classic of U.S. political fiction. Just a few years ago, it was chosen […]
