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...erudite, lengthy (467 pages), cocksure. It is jampacked with the "tangled elements of Western man's spiritual history," from the Mosaic tablets to the New Deal. Author Mumford is usually dogmatic, often insensitive, occasionally discerning. Sometimes he writes with the vehemence of an Old Testament prophet, sometimes with the horse sense of a veterinarian...
Twenty-odd years ago a good-looking young German named Walter Bauer got off a river boat at Asuncion, found a cave in the country, set up as a prophet. He told Paraguayan peasants when to marry or leave it alone. He predicted the future, made rain, found hidden treasure...
...enough, he moved to the summer resort of San Bernardino. Calling himself a "geoastrophysiologist," he turned to Paraguay's favorite subject - her wildcat politics - and flatly predicted that Dr. José Patricio Guggiari would be elected President. To the astonishment of Guggiari, the prediction came true, and the prophet's reputation soared...
Bauer predicted the Chaco War and its victorious ending. He predicted the presidency of José Félix Estigarribia. When he predicted the presidency of Higinio Morinigo (another unlikely event which came to pass), the grateful Morinigo made him a sort of court prophet, consulting him often on matters of state...
Rising to the emergency, President Morinigo hustled the prophet off to jail, called the prison barber. Now Bauer, beardless, lives in a little house near...