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...Eugene Burdick. 313 pages. McGraw-Hill...
...science fiction. Its practitioners aspire to write tomes that seem just like historical novels, but in the future tense. Seven Days in May, Fail-Safe, On the Beach-they have gone from Ugly to worse and from ad hoc to pure hokum. Right along with them has gone Eugene Burdick, co-author (with different partners) of both The Ugly American and Fail-Safe, and he now tries it solo...
...Burdick's new gimmick-true to their science-fiction ancestry, these novels usually require a gimmick-is the ominous threat to democracy posed by computers, which, he maintains, can tell politicians exactly how to manipulate the inertness of voters to win national elections for sure...
With the Republicans currently most in need of such help, Burdick imagines the real control of that party falling under the influence of two young behavioral scientists, the male named Madison Curver and the beautiful female known only as Dr. Devlin. These two are so brilliant that they talk only in footnotes...
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