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...view of America as an experiment remains a tremendously exciting fact. It sets up an important parallel between conservatives and radicals. The radicals would sneer at the "American Proposition," the belief that the U.S. must live up to a special act of providence, which was John Courtney Murray's scholarly elaboration of "God's country." And yet this fierce sense of a special American destiny is where Murray -and Henry R. Luce-meet the radicals. Radicals make demands on America that could only be fulfilled by an extraordinary nation, by a nation straining against the limits of history...
That same modesty underlies the book's most serious limitation, at least for readers who already share Cowan's disillusionment. Making of an Un-American looks behind us: its few implications for the future are cautious and vague. Cowan is, as Mark Rudd would doubtless sneer, an armchair revolutionary. He freely admits his inability to reduce the bankruptcy of reformism to personal revolutionary action. He brilliantly delineates how he got where he is, but takes us no further. His book ends with a disappointing abruptness after his revulsion for the Peace Corps comes to a climax. He is "un" -Americanized...
...their ultimatum, the seven opposition parties demanded that Balaguer campaign on an equal footing with other candidates, without presidential prerogatives. Unless he did, they threatened, they would refuse to participate in an election that would only be "a sneer to the people." Balaguer replied with lofty disdain. "To quit as presidente," he said, "would be handing them a coup d'état." He challenged his opponents to unite behind one candidate, who could give him a real race for the presidency. If they stay away, said Balaguer, "I will go to the election alone." With the army...
...elitism. Isolated sojourns into political activism convince me that I am a bona fide "radical," constantly demonstrating my willingness to forego middle class affluence. Armed with that self-image, I can indulge myself with all kinds of goodies when I'm off-duty, and call every working man's sneer that comes my way an offspring of "false consciousness." Whenever this happens, a little introspection provides a plausible (and comparatively mundane) explanation of a working-man's hatred. One might even call it "logical...
...Keith Chiappa 65 seemed undisturbed. "That defense has never been tested; we'll tear them apart with ease," Chiappa said with a sneer. "So what if they played a game yesterday? Aren't they in shape...