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The Vanishing Voters
From: The Washington Post
Date: 19910519
Author:George V. Higgins
WHY AMERICANS HATE POLITICS
By E.J. Dionne Jr.
Simon and Schuster. 430 pp. $22.95
FOR THE middle-aged political junkie who got hooked sometime during (or slightly after) the twilight of the second Eisenhower administration, the habit has increasingly become a source not of pleasure but of pain. Back then, it seems in retrospect at least, we treated the morning and evening papers in much the same fashion that Honore de Balzac's readers of the early 19th century received his freshest dispatch on the Human Comedy: eagerly, despite our full awareness that the newest bulletin about the downfall ...
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