The Language Of Politics In The Age Of Wilkes And Burke by James T. Boulton. University of Toronto Press. $6.75.
Nowadays, political debate sufficiently dreary—blighted by cant, slogan, and arid commonplace. Even though the fountains of the great deep are broken up, the political rhetoric of the twentieth century is enfeebled, and—at least in America and Britain—scarcely equal in style to the daily newspaper.
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