From The Proud Tower by Barbara Tuchman, describing US politics before 1910:
"Well-to-do, long-establish families did not shoulder - but shunned- the responsiblities of government...the adbication of the rich was born out of the success of the American Revolution and the defeat of Hamilton's design to organize the State in the interests of the governing class. Jefferson's principles and Jackson's democracy had won."
What the hell happened?
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And...what about Raoul?
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