Volume 39, Number 12 · June 25, 1992
The Democratic Vista
By Murray Kempton
Who Will Tell the People: The Betrayal of American Democracy
by William Greider
Simon and Schuster, 464 pp., $25.00
Karl Marx's economic interpretation of history has fallen so far out of fashion that William Greider fairly startles us with how well its application can work in Who Will Tell the People. The rest of us sit numbed with asking ourselves over and over, 'What's wrong with the Democratic Party?' and Greider bobs up with an answer as plausible as it is simple: Nothing at all is wrong with the Democratic Party from the point of view of the cadre of Washington lawyers who are its government in exile.
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