Volume 43, Number 12 · July 11, 1996
The Would-Be Progressives
By Garry Wills
They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era
by E.J. Dionne Jr.
Simon and Schuster, 352 pp., $24.00
In Defense of Government: The Fall and Rise of Public Trust
by Jacob Weisberg
Scribner, 209 pp., $22.00
Left for Dead: The Life, Death, and Possible Resurrection of Progressive Politics in America
by Michael Tomasky
Free Press, 226 pp., $23.00
Values Matter Most: How Republicans or Democrats or a Third Party Can Win and Renew the American Way of Life
by Ben J. Wattenberg
Free Press, 426 pp., $25.00
The New Promise of American Life
edited by Lamar Alexander, edited by Chester E. Finn Jr.
Hudson Institute, 357 pp., $12.95 (paper)
This is the centennial year of what George Will calls 'the first modern, meaning frantic, presidential campaign.' With that odd tug people experience toward number mysticism, commentators are looking for portents in the 1896 election—none more weirdly than Will. He finds hope for Dole in William Jennings Bryan's example: 'Do not underestimate the determination of these candidates from the prairies.' He seems to forget that Bryan lost and William McKinley won.[1]
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