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        <title>Richard Hofstadter</title>
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			<title><![CDATA[Caught in a paranoid conspiracy grip]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2010-03-21 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Along the stretch of U.S. highway where I live, there is a small sign announcing that the road has been "adopted" by the John Birch Society. This fringe group of yesteryear -- whose Dallas members distributed commie-baiting "Wanted for Treason" leaflets...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[In today's pages: False steps, botched arrests and phony outrage]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2009-09-17 08:54:11</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Along the stretch of U.S. highway where I live, there is a small sign announcing that the road has been "adopted" by the John Birch Society. This fringe group of yesteryear -- whose Dallas members distributed commie-baiting "Wanted for Treason" leaflets...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Apocalypse now: 'Collapse' and the end of the world as we know it]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2009-11-09 21:32:26</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Along the stretch of U.S. highway where I live, there is a small sign announcing that the road has been "adopted" by the John Birch Society. This fringe group of yesteryear -- whose Dallas members distributed commie-baiting "Wanted for Treason" leaflets...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[The History Channel's JFK miniseries: Is it really right-wing character assassination?]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2010-02-22 21:32:28</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Along the stretch of U.S. highway where I live, there is a small sign announcing that the road has been "adopted" by the John Birch Society. This fringe group of yesteryear -- whose Dallas members distributed commie-baiting "Wanted for Treason" leaflets...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[In his own right]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2008-02-28 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[William F. Buckley Jr., as anybody who has seen the great Buckley impressions by Joe Flaherty or Robin Williams can attest, was hardly inimitable. But the contributions of the National Review founder and long-serving icon of conservatism extended far...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA['Family of Secrets' by Russ Baker]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-et-rutten7-2009jan07,0,7066262.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2009-01-07 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The tendency Richard Hofstadter so aptly labeled "the paranoid style" in American politics operates independent of ideology.

"American politics has often been an arena for angry minds," the great historian wrote in a 1964 issue of Harper's magazine. He...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Two timeless, Depression-era novels from Edward Anderson]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-bkw-rayner22-2008jun22,0,6597119.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2008-06-22 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Edward Anderson had a strange and sad career. He was born in Texas in 1905 and grew up in Oklahoma, serving his apprenticeship as a journalist on a small paper in Ardmore, Okla. Restless, he worked as a deckhand on a freighter, plied his fists as a...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[The GOP's McCarthy gene]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-oe-gabler30-2008nov30,0,1937179.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2008-11-30 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ever since the election, partisans within the Republican Party and observers outside it have been speculating wildly about what direction the GOP will take to revive itself from its disaster. Or, more specifically, which wing of the party will prevail...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA['The Lincoln Anthology' edited by Harold Holzer, 'The Best American History Essays on Lincoln' edited by Sean Wilentz, Ronald C. White's biography 'A. Lincoln' and others]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2009-02-01 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It was Tuesday, May 30, 1922, the day of the dedication of the solemn and splendid memorial to Abraham Lincoln in Washington, and the ceremony on the Mall featured speeches by President Warren Harding and Chief Justice William Howard Taft.

The most...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA["The Golden Age" by Gore Vidal]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2000-09-17 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[For years now, the promise of a new Gore Vidal book has been something to get the blood running or boiling. No other American writer has maintained quite such a radical, iconoclastic vision of his nation's past, and nowhere has Vidal been more provocative...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[When well-educated politicians cry 'snob']]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-03-08 15:02:27</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[With the Republican presidential nomination contest in high gear, Marylanders might be forgiven for smiling. The word "snob" has returned with full force to presidential politics after a four-decade hiatus. Former Sen. Rick Santorum (Penn State University...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[The comedy club]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/sns-201201051130--tms--pgreenbgtp--u-a20120105jan05,0,5910656.column?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2012-01-05 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It seems former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter has undertaken a second career as a stand-up comic. He's now switching occupations the way he once switched political parties.

At 81, the longtime Republican then Democratic senator from Pennsylvania opened the...]]></description>
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