Posted by Orrin Judd at 4:10 PM THE FUNDAMENTALITY OF CONTEXTUAL VALUES IS WHAT MAKES FLIGHT POSSIBLE: From Henry James to Trump (Fred Kaplan, Apr. 25, 2011, Yahoo! News)
One of the great novels of American social manners is The Bostonians, which established Henry James as a major novelist and entranced critics with its realistic evocation of late-19th century America. But what if there’s another layer behind it? What if the book was part of an elaborate code that allowed the novelists in James’s inner circle—William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, Henry Adams—to discuss freely the real-life people on whom they modeled their characters? What if the appearance of fiction was merely a cover for an ongoing conversation about politics, sex, and society among America’s literati?
That would be a very Jamesian sort of game. The man who is often called “the Master” in England—where he is better known for such novels as The Portrait of a Lady and The Wings of the Dove—was obsessed with codes, patterns, hidden messages, subtexts. He also adored gossip. But was it more than that? Was it really espionage?…
A young, black state senator defeated an entrenched white incumbent to become attorney general of Illinois. As he took office, President-elect Barack Obama named him his White House chief of staff. Eight years later, he was elected mayor of Chicago and served in that post until a scandal erupted around one of his key aides. He then spent a few quiet years teaching law before being tapped to be the secretary of health and human services. Last year.
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