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And so, bravely embracing what he cannot deny, Brookhiser, in his edition of the rules, throws in some jocularity of his own, with the sure lightness of touch you would expect from an author who has based his biography of Washington on a guide to etiquette.
Supremely convinced of this point, Brookhiser has gone ahead and brought out his own little edition of Washington's rules under the title Rules of Civility: The 110 Precepts That Guided Our First President in War and Peace , slightly altered to eliminate the 18 th -century idiosyncrasies (a pity) and emended with small commentaries by Brookhiser himself, some of them pertaining to events in Washington's life, others solemnly applying of Washington's rules to circumstances of today.
The conservative writer Richard Brookhiser recently made a version of the same case in American Heritage . "Perhaps the wise leader should strive to have intellectuals on tap and not be one himself," Brookhiser writes.
You would be very hard-pressed to find someone who could argue with a straight face, pace Richard Brookhiser on George W. Bush's future prospects, that it's precisely because Jack Welch isn't that smart that he's done such a good job at GE.
It has been argued, but not definitively proven, that this is a veiled reference to the scandalous affair between Beecher and Elizabeth Tilton, a member of his parish and the wife of his successor as editor of the Independent , for more on which see Richard Brookhiser's article The Happy Medium in the New York Times Book Review of March 29, 1998.
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