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The first of the 2000 Republican debates, which took place this evening in Durham, N.H., was a little like a production of Hamlet without Hamlet.
Focus on the substance of debates, not on strategy, theater, or the opponents' personal flaws.
Those of conservative or center-right proclivities characteristically look at America's past through the eyes of Alexis de Tocqueville, the French aristocrat who toured the fledgling United States in the 1830s, gathering observations and ideas that were, in due course, published in Democracy in America . Tocqueville's opus has become one of the modern world's most influential political ethnographies--that is, a set of densely descriptive observations of another nation, written to influence political debates back in one's own country.
L>ast week in Slate , Jodie T. Allen and Bill Barnes proposed using advanced Microsoft software to condense the transcripts of the presidential debates.
It is within this generally agreed-upon context that all the historians' Cold War debates take place--and Gaddis' thoughtful but often long-winded book broadly accepts this framework.