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James Carville, a political consultant in real life who, oddly enough, also plays one on TV, has written a new book called Had Enough? A Handbook For Fighting Back. Apart from its cover, on which a black-eyed, band-aided yet still pugnacious Carville looks too much like a rough trade pinup boy, Had Enough? is a brilliant book, essential reading for anybody interested in the preservation of our democratic institutions. Nowhere in the book is his insight and acumen better demonstrated than in the passage where he advises those who share his philosophy to "arm yourself with facts and counter-arguments. There are a lot of places to do this, but as far as I'm concerned, the progressive must-read is a magazine called The Washington Monthly." Well said, Mr. Carville!
Now, while my editor goes out to buy some marble and a chisel, I will continue with the review.
Carville's greatest claim to fame, of course, is that he was Bill Clinton's campaign manager in 1992, a year when at first it seemed that the greatest stature...
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