It's Monday and as our newsletter evolves, hopefully this can become a semi-regular sub-feature: something to chew on until May 2022 at least, as the Twilight of the Great Eagle Father proceeds and the question of the succession unfolds.A note on why "Electoral Merry-Go-Round." It's a homage to the Free Press' prewar Washington correspondent, James Wingo, who wrote a regular feature-column, "Independence Merry-Go-Round" which, if only it were collected and published as an anthology, would give a vivid, contemporary view, of the independence movement. You can get a flavor for his cheeky style from two samples, Cold feet, designer, super-toaster, editorials, etc., June 1, 1935 and Only Garner can tell hearings’ outcome, August 20, 1938.
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It's Monday and as our newsletter evolves, hopefully this can become a semi-regular sub-feature: something to chew on until May 2022 at least, as the Twilight of the Great Eagle Father proceeds and the question of the succession unfolds.A note on why "Electoral Merry-Go-Round." It's a homage to the Free Press' prewar Washington correspondent, James Wingo, who wrote a regular feature-column, "Independence Merry-Go-Round" which, if only it were collected and published as an anthology, would give a vivid, contemporary view, of the independence movement. You can get a flavor for his cheeky style from two samples, Cold feet, designer, super-toaster, editorials, etc., June 1, 1935 and Only Garner can tell hearings’ outcome, August 20, 1938.