Re: Re: Thomas Ferguson’s Golden Rule: criticism? compliments?
On Jul 17, 2006, at 9:55 PM, Tim Francis-Wright wrote:
For what it’s worth, Ferguson and Rogers’s Right Turn: The Decline
of the Democrats and the Future of American Politics, published in
1986, has a different spin on this thesis. They portray a
Democratic party that turned rightward in the late 1970s ahead of
any rightward movement by the electorate. Perhaps they overplay
the investment theory of politics a bit much.
I always assumed that those passages were mainly Ferguson’s work.
Ferguson’s a bit paranoid, I heard some years back. Fearing his phone
was tapped, he used to make calls from pay phones.
Doug