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if the author is really a man of affairs, this is an extraordinarily interesting book. It shows how utterly juvenile a great man can be. If he is really an "insider" then we on the outside have very little to learn. ... The imagination is that of a romantic boy of 14 who dreams of what he would do if
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talked about the book in congress, noting its substantial influence. He said: "Here is exhibited the
Colonel's whole mental viscera. If there be twilight zones in the biography of 1918, the Colonel's 312 pages of fiction flashed from the watchtowers of 1912 a searchlight athwart the gloaming so any
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Philip Dru was obviously an expression both of House's ambition and his political dreams and it was an expression of the ideas of the man who had an impressive amount of influence on
Woodrow Wilson. Seldom have the elements of a utopia been implemented so soon as the reforms of Philip Dru were;
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Lippmann had so little to learn from the Colonel, noting how eight major reforms from the book, some of them initially opposed by both President Wilson and his Home Secretary
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The book has several characters: Philip Dru is the main protagonist of the story. Other characters include Gloria Strawn and her brother Jack Strawn, John Thor, and
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wayfarer can see everything. Suffice it to know Philip Dru is an autobiography of the
Colonel himself and solves the Conundrum how to get rid of the Constitution."
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The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History
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