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Hamerow examines the motives of the resisters, both civilian and military; he shows them weaving sinuously between self-interest and idealism.
By the end of 1969, the idealism of the SDS had degenerated into personal bickering and a flirtation with Maoist terrorism that could be written off as mere goofiness had it not resulted in the loss of innocent lives on both sides of the Atlantic.
But many of our problems--particularly education, crime, and welfare dependence--are yielding to good sense and strength and idealism."
Alas, Faulkner captures the milieu of Gothic dysfunction from which Clinton emerged but describes Flem's rise only in terms of venality, missing the all-important element of idealism.
The Capraesque idealism is in conflict with the post-Stone paranoia.