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| | The New Yorker: The Critics: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Eugene McCarthy, the dragon-slayer of American politics, belonged to a famous cohort of Minnesota Democrats who came together in the years after the Second World War and produced a governor, Orville Freeman, and two Vice-Presidents, Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale. |
 | | In 1973, McCarthy explored the possibility of running for Congress from Minnesota’s Sixth District, the part of the state where he was born, but he was made to understand that the Democrats of the Sixth District did not find the possibility thrilling, and he didn’t run. |
 | | McCarthy now lives in a retirement home in Washington, D.C. “Eugene McCarthy: The Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism” (Knopf; $25.95), by Dominic Sandbrook, a young British historian, is an effort to map McCarthy’s career onto the history of American liberalism. |
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