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Charlie Schuyler's memoirs are considerably more omniscient than those of his obscure model. For they include Burr's own memoirs as dictated to Charlie, his would-be biographer. The Burr sections are Vidal's skillful précis of Aaron Burr's actual letters and diaries, containing intimate justifications for his adventures and intrigues. Burr, the sardonic wit, constantly sees through labels like Republican and Federalist to such common denominators as hunger for glory, power and the preservation of privilege. He talks of Washington's "eerie incompetence" as a military leader, while admiring...
...philosophy is encouraged by two factors. First, the city's complicated system of voting--proportional representation (PR)--aids the election of minority group candidates...
...Independents have formed a slate for the first time because of the realities of PR politics. They reluctantly recognize that the CCA has had great success in making slate endorsements since...
With so many horses in the race, slates become a critical element in the campaign. They act as a scorecard, helping the voter identify a group of like-minded candidates and aiding the contestants in garnering transfer votes (under PR, candidates are voted for in preferential order, so that those who do not reach a certain quota of No. 1 votes must rely on the No. 2 and 3 transfer votes from supporters of other candidates...
...minorities are the life-blood of Cambridge--blacks, landlords, the rich, Italians, students, the poor, Catholics, intellectuals, etc. Since each minority is equally unpopular and equally strident in its demands for a share of political power, PR remains in Cambridge, its last pure bastion in the country...