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A Passage to What?
If you stick with this one, I think I’ll be able to explain how it is that fascism can be made appealing to ordinary Americans, and no fooling. I want to be clear that by “ordinary Americans,” I do...
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The Other Hanoverians
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Literature and Political Theology in the Eighteenth Century
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