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For all his elegiac rumination, though, Steiner does not lack a polemicist's instinct for the intellectual or ideological "hot spot."
In The Future Once Happened Here , historian and polemicist Fred Siegel quotes Mayor Robert Wagner, circa 1965, as saying, "I do not propose to let our fiscal problems set the limit of our commitments to meet the essential needs of the people of this city."
At times, too, the (cool expertise vs. righteousness, wit vs. no sense of humor) become almost too vivid, as if she weren't a real-life polemicist so much as an intriguing fictional character.
The right-wing polemicist's biography is accused of idolizing the Gipper and lacking "intellectual honesty" (Claude Marx, the Washington Post Book World ). In the New York Times Book Review , Richard Berke says the book retells hackneyed anecdotes and is not "particularly revealing about what drove him."