Volume 13, Number 9 · November 20, 1969
Childe Lindsay
By Murray Kempton
Governing the City: Challenges and Options for New York
edited by Robert H. Connery, edited by Demetrios Caraley
Praeger, 250 pp., $2.95 (paper)
A Political Life: The Education of John V. Lindsay
by Nat Hentoff
Knopf, 354 pp., $6.95
Snobbery seems insufficiently understood as a factor in democratic politics, which, more often than not, is just the wriggling of the man who feels snubbed in unequal contest with the man who can snub. The subject is indeed so neglected that it arises only once in a recent study of the governance of New York: when Irving Kristol, co-editor first of Encounter and now of The Public Interest, complains about the hauteur of 'the Upper East Side and Suburban Elite (the media men, WASP bankers and foundation officials, affluent Jewish financiers and professionals, advertising agencies, etc.).'[*]
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