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The Braves' forte is the outfield, with Hank Aaron, Rico Carty, Felipe Alou, and Mack Jones. Bragan spots Tony Cloniger, Denny Lemaster, Ken Johnson, and Hank Fischer as his starters and looks to an array of youngsters to supply the rest. The Braves must have good years from veterans Eddie...
The thrust of the argument of Bolling the reformer, then, is not unreconcilable with Bolling the former establishment man. The main element of reform is a strengthening of the leadership. But there is no extensive analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of the proposal, or its basis. On the procedural...
On the substantive question--which, as I have implied, is probably more important--Bolling contends that his reforms will help liberals and hurt conservatives. This follows from certain assumptions, such as that conservatives, having more seniority, are at an advantage in the present system; that procedural obstructions help conservatives because...
The point is, that all these qualifications raise important issues with which Bolling never deals. He provides a serious analysis of neither the abstract advantages of his procedural reforms, nor the relevant factors relating to his substantive claim that stronger leadership in the House will aid liberalism.
A similar lack of clarity of analysis characterized Senator Joseph Clark's Congress: The Sapless Branch which pre-dated this by a year. Clark's history is no better than Bolling's; and he is even more prone to accept, unexamined, theories for a stronger two-party system, such as...