BCJ@PSUVM (02/12/90)
At what point, if any, can we draw a dividing line between history and
current events?
Has anyone been reading the amazing (and terrifying) documentation of
Lyndon Johnson's 1948 senatorial campaign? It ran in four long parts in
the New Yorker in January-early February this year. Like many of the long
pieces in that magazine, I suspect, it will soon be released as a book.
The account of the transformation of Texas politics is fascinating, the
picture of the politician unlovely, and the implications troubling. I'd
be glad to hear anybody else's reactions.
-- Kevin Berland