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Lords of Innovation : /p> p>Does anyone understand Democrats better than Bob Tyrrell? Long before Don Imus -- in a speech to the Washington press corps -- likened Carville, Reno, Shalala, Reich, Achtenburg, and the other Clinton Democrats to the alien bar denizens in Star Wars , Tyrrell wrote The Liberal Crack-Up , in which he chronicled the lives of the passingly strange Democrats of the Carter era. This classic book, which may be out of print, was an epiphany -- opening my eyes that these creatures had escaped from their Brigadoon liberal village (heretofore I believed the regular Democrats lifted the spell on them and allowed their appearance only each four years in the a.m. hours of Democratic national conventions) and were abroad in the great world. In his book, Tyrrell recognized that they --- Cuomo, Abzug, Carter himself and others -- were essentially evildoers , but as only he can also limned how ridiculous they were. I gave copies of The Liberal Crack-Up to my sons when they were of political age and will do it again for my newly minted grandson, Nathaniel Wheatley Stiyer -- just 10 days old. br> -- J. R. Wheatley /p> p> JEFFORDS LUBED

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