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Susan Braudy Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left. Knopf, 496 pages, $27.95
Much remains to be learned about the origins of political fanaticism, the connections between consuming resentment and the taking of radical political positions, perverted idealism and political violence. More specifically, it is still not well understood what precisely were the sources of the hostility and anger directed at American society by many of its most privileged members in recent times.
In this long, well written, and generally well documented volume, Susan Brandy does not provide us with any particularly keen insights about these matters. She ...