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Will We Always Have Paris?

By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. on 9.4.07 @ 12:06AM

Heeding the sober warnings of the indispensable Fred Ikle.

This review appeared in the July/August 2007 issue of The American Spectator. To subscribe to our monthly print edition, click here.

About the Author

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. is the founder and editor in chief of The American Spectator. He is the author of The Death of Liberalism, published by Thomas Nelson Inc. His previous books include the New York Times bestseller Boy Clinton: the Political Biography; The Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton; The Liberal Crack-Up; The Conservative Crack-Up; Public Nuisances; The Future that Doesn’t Work: Social Democracy’s Failure in Britain; Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House; The Clinton Crack-Up; and After the Hangover: The Conservatives’ Road to Recovery.

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