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The New Elite: The Death ofDemocracy

By David LebedoffWatts, 194 pp., $11.95 This book is a real sleeper, a major and original work slipping into the circle of attention and bursting into a blaze of social and political illumination. I had never heard of David Lebedoff, a lawyer and former official of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (Humphrey-Mondale country—nothing to light up the sky there). The book comes to us via Franklin Watts, a not very well-known publisher, in a rather dreary format.

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The New Elite: The Death ofDemocracy

By David LebedoffWatts, 194 pp., $11.95 This book is a real sleeper, a major and original work slipping into the circle of attention and bursting into a blaze of social and political illumination. I had never heard of David Lebedoff, a lawyer and former official of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (Humphrey-Mondale country—nothing to light up the sky there). The book comes to us via Franklin Watts, a not very well-known publisher, in a rather dreary format.