This controversial book describes how the New Elite-a self-selected class whose members believe they know what's good for the rest of us-has been systematically attacking our tradition of majority rule. The capture of our political parties by extremists, campaigns based on anger rather than issues, laws created by unelected judges, congressmen immune from defeat, and an alienated and ignored electorate-all these represent a calculated effort of a new class to replace the public will with its own. Who are the New Elite? They are, Lebedoff asserts, the self-proclaimed "smartest people in the...
This controversial book describes how the New Elite-a self-selected class whose members believe they know what's good for the rest of us-has been syst...
The Twenty-First Ballot was first published in 1969. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
This account of a bitter struggle with in the Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) party in Minnesota is an interesting story in its own right, and, viewed from a wider perspective, is a valuable documentary on the American political process.
The author recounts the events leading up to and climaxing in the party's deep split over the...
The Twenty-First Ballot was first published in 1969. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once...
From a secret base in the north woods, ruthless fanatics have been able to place a lethal poison into common mosquitoes, whose stings then cause instant and horrible death. When those insects are released, the country is defenseless. The race is on to find the source of the attack before it is too late. A brave young doctor pits her own resourcefulness against the leader of the fanatics--putting herself at terrible risk.
From a secret base in the north woods, ruthless fanatics have been able to place a lethal poison into common mosquitoes, whose stings then cause insta...
