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The Decline and Fall of the British Empire
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire
By Robert Briffault
Simon and Schuster, 1938, 264 pp

A blistering diatribe against practically everything British, in particular the hypocrisy that England is the bulwark of democracy. According to Mr. Briffault, an anthropologist and novelist as well as a political cynic, the British Empire is disintegrating, a process forwarded by the persistent stupidity of its governing class.

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