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“Henry Adams wrote this book with a female heroine. The main character is very smart but highly marriageable. A politician—in a way an avatar of democracy—comes out of the Midwest and is doing very well in Washington. In the way of 19th-century novels, you read it thinking, ‘Whatever you do, don’t marry him. He’s bad.’ “ Read more...
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