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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Your Wednesday Morning Takedown

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2010/11/29/101129crbo_books_packer?currentPage=all

Yes.  It's a day late.

This is George Packer's review of Bush's memoir in The New Yorker.  It is exactly the sort of takedown one would expect from The New Yorker: polite, well-researched, authoritative and somewhat despondent that words like this must be written.  Packer manages to takedown Bush's pretensions of himself thoroughly and yet seems sad that he has to do so.

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