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From the start, Slavitt makes clear he has little regard for anyone. His recounting of a campaign event where he was accompanied by a Crimson reporter, for example, is a typical show of his pomposity...
...These sordid confrontations with reality are exotic to Harvard students, the kind of thing that they don’t know and only rarely imagine,” muses Slavitt, a Yale graduate. “Much of the purpose of going to places like Harvard and Yale is to obviate the need for such vulgar encounters...
You’d think these words describe begging for campaign money or being glad-handed by slick, Beacon Hill politicians. In fact, they describe Slavitt standing in front of a market and introducing himself to voters...
...this is a key problem throughout the book: Slavitt regards candidate-to-voter contact—the core of our political culture—as “sordid” and “vulgar...
...emerges again in his contempt for those without “elite” education when he supposes that his own intelligence might make him a weaker candidate. “[A]s [State Rep. Timothy J.] Toomey is almost certainly less intelligent than I am,” Slavitt speculates, “he has the advantage, because his mind is much less likely than mine to skitter off in all directions...