August 2020
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
6h 51m
English

ACCORDING TO THE campaign orators, our next President will be a wondrous man. Above all, he will be a statesman. He will also be a first-class administrator, dedicated to efficient government. His political philosophy will be sound. (Either soundly liberal or soundly conservative, but in any case sound.) To hear them tell it, he may even be suffused with that elusive quality, “greatness.”
These are the terms in which we always discuss our candidates—and, indeed, it will be nice for all of us if November’s winner actually proves to be endowed with these blessings. But they are not the ...