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"American political scions evoke a central contradiction in our thinking. We believe - or say we do -..." — Michael Beschloss
American political scions evoke a central contradiction in our thinking. We believe - or say we do - in nurture, not nature. Yet we are comforted by the aristocratic notion that leadership might run in the bloodlines.
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