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Corruption in Washington

Stevenson, Elizabeth | October 11, 1952 issue

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This article presents information on the book "Democracy. An American Novel," by Henry Adams. The book goes as lightly, as epigrammatically, as wickedly, in 1952 as it did when first published in 1880. On democracy the book suggests that "Democracy, rightly understood, is the government of the people, by the people, for the benefit of Senators." On monkeys and evolution: After all, we ought to be grateful to them, for what would men do in. this melancholy world if they had not inherited gaiety from the monkeys-as well as oratory?

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