The Grubby Corruption of Our Power Elite
Posted By: gundisalvus, 1/26/2020 11:46:14 AM
In January 1956, John F. Kennedy published Profiles in Courage, biographical encomia to eight U.S. senators, from John Quincy Adams to Robert Taft, whom Kennedy thought exhibited conspicuous courage in the discharge of their public duties. I say Kennedy published Profiles in Courage. But the book was written not by JFK but by the loyal Kennedy apparatchik and fixer Ted Sorensen. Sorenson, like so many in the Kennedy circle, was a bit thuggish. He was also an eloquent writer.
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In his review of Peter Schweizer's latest book, Roger Kimball details the web of corruption in which Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders crawl.