Michael Perelman wrote: > But he refused aid to Hungary during the short-lived revolution. The > problems he confronted in real life tended to confuse him.
right. I think that Hoover tended to live in a world which worked according to perfectly rational (engineer's) standards. But the real world is very different. One book I read compares Hoover to Carter, because they both "snapped" when events stopped being comprehensible. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
