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The Whig World.(Book review)
The Whig World, by Leslie Mitchell (Hambledon & London, 256 pp., $39.95)
THE term "Whig" is a pregnant one, but with what exactly: Some nave treated Whiggism as a set of doctrines: Friedrich Hayek, rejecting "conservatism," called himself instead an "Old Whig." Others have treated it as a personality archetype: Thomas Jefferson wrote that the terms "Whig and Tory belong to natural as well as to civil history," for they "denote the temper and constitution of mind of different individuals." Still others have questioned the very idea of Whiggism, and argued that no such thing ever really existed.
To rescue us from confusion comes Oxford don Leslie Mitchell, who has distilled a lifetime of scholarship in a single volume, The Whig World. Mitchell defines the Whig not ideologically or temperamentally, but sociologically: The Whigs, he argues, were a distinct (and exclusive) social class. Nothing like them has existed before or since: the opulent, ancestor-worshipping, morally libertine, ...
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