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 | | Johnson eventually leads the way into a small study, a closet really, where he produced these books, along with his new epic, the 1,100-page ''A History of the American People,'' which was released in the United States two weeks ago and is also expected to become a best seller. |
 | | Rousseau, Johnson writes, ''liked to be spanked on his bare bottom.'' Marx seldom bathed and ''took very little exercise, ate highly spiced food, often in large quantities, smoked heavily, drank a lot.'' Johnson's intellectuals, then, are men on the left who behaved badly. |
 | | Johnson also shares another trait of the intelligentsia: a tendency to be dazzled by fame and power. |
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