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American government v British government: political fiction?
Toward the end of Anthony Trollope’s The Duke’s Children, an American intellectual, Mr. Boncassen, whose daughter is about to marry Silverbridge, the Duke’s son, engages in an after dinner political conversation. In one of Trollope’s complex but explicit descriptions of … Continue reading
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Tagged American elections, Anthony Trollope, Rutherford B. Hayes, The Duke's Children
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle? Well…
He had, he thought, been very firm and gave himself some credit on that head. His father, no doubt, had been firm too, but that he had expected. His father had said much. All that about honour and duty had … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Trollope, Duchess of Sussex, Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, The Duke's Children
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