tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post6065196922167369817..comments2023-12-28T06:30:48.808-05:00Comments on The Rule of Reason: Book Review: "Fear Itself"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-48345712237374783322014-04-15T22:44:12.836-04:002014-04-15T22:44:12.836-04:00A detailed review. I commend your ability to make ...A detailed review. I commend your ability to make your way through all those pages espousing ideas so at odds with your own.<br /><br />May I recommend Fred Siegel's new book? I'm only on Chapter 2,, but it's fascinating. I had no idea the dour Mencken was a devout Nietzschean.<br /><br /><i>The Revolt Against the Masses: How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class</i><br /><br />I'm just getting to the backstory on Wilson's entry into The War, how on the day he announced our entry, he gave a shout-out to the Russian Revolution and those lovers of democracy...<br /><br />...with a straight face.<br /><br />A boyhood friend of Mr. Siegel's sent me the book - he knows our book budget is nil and that I love history. <br /><br />This particular view through the kaleidoscope is a bit different from the one my husband got from his intensive A-Level history studies in England and even he has met with some surprises in Siegel's work...- e.g., that Wilson loathed the English and French...<br /><br />I hadn't realized the extent to which the Progressives (and then Liberals) admired the German ideal. They thought Anglo-Saxon ideas were dead and needed to be jettisoned. I do recall that Bismarck's proto-welfare state was conceived as a way to draw Germans away from the new Communism arising in Russia...<br /><br />Anyhow, this would be a good antidote - though even less cheering - to the book you just finished. I am hoping someone at City Journal is going to review it.Dymphnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06040064724546519425noreply@blogger.com