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A Plague on Both Your Houses By Robert W. Whitaker

Robert B. Luce, 208 pp., $9.95 Sometimes it seems that just about everyone I meet wants to talk about “populism” and a New Majority political coalition. Until now, however, the leading New Majority theorists have not struck us as really representing the populist culture itself. Kevin Phillips (Edinburgh-Harvard) and William Rusher (Princeton-Harvard) certainly have not established themselves as horny-handed sons of the soil. Though they have written engrossing books on New Majority themes, they are themselves about as populist as Walter Pater.

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A Plague on Both Your Houses By Robert W. Whitaker

Robert B. Luce, 208 pp., $9.95 Sometimes it seems that just about everyone I meet wants to talk about “populism” and a New Majority political coalition. Until now, however, the leading New Majority theorists have not struck us as really representing the populist culture itself. Kevin Phillips (Edinburgh-Harvard) and William Rusher (Princeton-Harvard) certainly have not established themselves as horny-handed sons of the soil. Though they have written engrossing books on New Majority themes, they are themselves about as populist as Walter Pater.