Irving Babbitt on Lincoln and unionism.

Humanitas | March 22, 2002| | Copyright

Surveying American politics, culture and society in Democracy and Leadership, Irving Babbitt found little to admire and much to criticize. (1) Against the notion that "the people" could be trusted to choose worthy leaders, he reminded his readers that "Millions of Americans were ready not so very long ago to hail William Jennings Bryan as a 'peerless leader'"--while in the present "Other millions are ready apparently to bestow a similar salute on Henry Ford" (308). Babbitt was willing to acknowledge that "Judged by any quantitative test, the American achievement is ...

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