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Book: Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968
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  1. Norman Mailer _ Miami and the Siege of

    It seemed to him that he had been afraid all his life, but in recent years, or so it seemed, he had learned how to take a step into his fear, how to take the action which frightened him most {and so could free him the most}. He did not do it always, who could? but he had come to think that the secret to growth was to be brave a little more than one was cowardly, simple as that, indeed
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  2. Norman Mailer _ Miami and the Siege of

    He was drinking and contemplating his fear. It seemed to him that he had been afraid all his life, but in recent years, or so it seemed, he had learned how to take a step into his fear, how to take the action which frightened him most {and so could free him the most}. He did not do it always, who could? but he had come to think that the secret to growth was to be brave a little more than one was cowardly, simple as that, indeed
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  3. Norman Mailer _ Miami and the Siege of

    Politics at national level can still be comprehended by politics-as-property provided one remembers that moral integrity {or the public impression of such} in a high politician is also property, since it brings power and/or emoluments to him. Indeed a very high politician-which is to say a statesman or leader-has no political substance unless he is the servant of ideological institutions or interests and the available moral passions of the electorate, so serving, he is the agent of the political power they bestow on him, which power is certainly a property. Being
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