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From: National Review
Date: 19990628
Author:Brookhiser, Richard

Mr. Brookhiser, an NR senior editor, is author most recently of Alexander Hamilton, American.

Turn of the Century, by Kurt Andersen (Random House, 659 pp., $24.95)

When I go to the beach, I usually take a novel by Anthony Trollope. It is a painless way to absorb social history, and if there are 50 pages still unread by the time I come home, who cares? Once, as I looked past the book to my toes and the little slipping waves, I realized that a strange thing had occurred-I was actually interested in a character.

This year I took Kurt Andersen's Turn of the Century to the ...

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