How prevalent has political corruption been over recorded history—and how did it originate? Quite an inkling as to its prevalence and origin can be found in a book written by H. J. Haskell and published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1939. The book is The New Deal in Old Rome. Haskell, a newspaperman with the Kansas City Star, was both puzzled and inspired
I’ve been reading The Bush Betrayal by James Bovard (Palgrave Macmillan, $26.95, 330 pages) and I’m impressed by the wit, bite, attention to documentation, and eye for moral concerns in James Bovard’s approach to things political, here dissecting the Bush White House in cuts more libertarian than conservative. Mr. Bovard has written for The Wall
The word democracy is conspicuously absent in the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights. The framers feared it, and so limited federal power with checks and balances. Yet in a real sense the Founding Fathers did provide democracy, a lot of it, but in the voluntary private sector. They left the vast bulk of the people’s
¿Cuál ha sido el grado de corrupción política en nuestra historia escrita y cómo se originó? Una indicación de su grado y origen puede encontrarse en un libro escrito por H. J. Haskell y publicado por Alfred A. Knopf en 1939. El libro es The New Deal in Old Rome . Haskell, periodista en el Kansas City Star , quedó al tiempo intrigado e inspirado a
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