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...estimated 40% of the electorate in the political spectrum's middle span, people whose vote, regardless of nominal party affiliation or inclination, is changeable. This consensus shuns rigidly doctrinaire extremes that have brought upon the system its most tragic failures, notably the Civil War. British Political Scientist Denis Brogan points out that "the immediate cause of the greatest breakdown of the American political system was the breakdown of the party system, the failure of the party machinery and the party leaders to remember their national function, which, if carried out, was the justification of the varied weaknesses and absurdities...
...brilliant dilettante, a creator in a dozen roles and garbs. He was a specialist in nothing-except courage, imagination, intelligence. He was never afraid to lead, and he knew that a leader must sometimes risk failure and disapproval rather than seek universal acclaim. He had been, as Denis Brogan put it, "everything but the Archbishop of Canterbury"-and he often seemed more confident than any archbishop that he had the ear of God and was watched over with solicitude by angels...
AMERICAN ASPECTS by Denis W. Brogan. 195 pages. Harper...
Astonishingly enough, neither Oxford nor Cambridge offers a course in U.S. history alone. But Britain has D. W. Brogan, 64, an amiable Americanolopist-at-large who has exhaustively studied the U.S. past and present, has spent years working and traveling through the land, and has written some of the most perceptive books about the Republic (The American Character, Government of the People) by any British author since Lord Bryce. In this discursive, diverting collection of essays, Brogan discusses the Civil War, Henry Adams, Teddy Roosevelt, and Dwight Eisenhower. He is surprisingly tolerant of such institutions as the freeway, perhaps overgenerous...
...that promise to make dreams come true through sheer repetition. On the other hand, observes San Francisco State College's S. I. Hayakawa, a pioneering U.S. semanticist. "You don't move a mass society with a volume by Galbraith." Particularly in the U.S., as Cambridge Historian Denis Brogan has pointed out, "the evocative power of verbal symbols must not be despised, for these are and have been one of the chief means of uniting the United States and keeping it united...