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Blood, Class And Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies

Christopher Hitchens
Reviewed by Gaddis Smith
Winter 1990/91
Blood, Class And Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies
Christopher Hitchens
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
1990
398 pp.
$22.95
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An entertaining, sardonic, and yet serious jaunt through the culture of American Anglophilia. The argument is that many of the English characteristics that worthy Americans rejected in 1776-" . . . standing armies, hereditary privilege, state surveillance of the citizenry . . . monarchism"-have unfortunately been reimported in this century.

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