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"Mugged by Reality" describes how Ellwood fils , who popularized the idea of welfare time limits, saw his idea "hijacked and brutalized" by conservatives.
After all, the 62-year-old has served a grand total of six years in public office (all in the House of Representatives), has not won an election since 1982, was brutalized in her last two campaigns (1984 vice-presidential and 1992 senatorial), and has been tangled in more ethics scandals than any politician except, well, Al D'Amato.
His quibble was that Grass' efforts to come up with an adequate description of the brutality of German society had in many ways brutalized him: "Grass," he writes, "is nearly always too long; nearly always too loud."
It soon becomes apparent that solving the mystery will require a blend of reason and superstition--a mighty stretch for a young man whose life is pledged to rationalism and whose unconscious roils with visions of his free-spirited mother (Lisa Marie) being brutalized by a "Bible-black tyrant" of a father.