A Nation of Salesmen by Earl Shorris

Author:Earl Shorris
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780393334081
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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1 New York Times, April 19, 1992. Mitchell is the author of The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair’s Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics (New York: Random House, 1992).

2 Harper’s Magazine had sent me to the 1980 Republican convention to write one of those essayistic pieces that appear in monthly magazines long after the event.

3 The obligatory disclaimer about Periclean Athens: The Athenians did not permit women or slaves to participate in the government of the polis, which we now understand as unethical behavior. However, M. I. Finley’s admonition must be remembered: The application of modern morality to fifth-century Athens is an anachronism. And any sense of moral superiority we moderns may harbor should be tempered by the history of universal suffrage in the United States, not to mention the willingness of many Americans to fight a war over the issue of slavery.

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