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American political history is the story of a people overthrowing a hereditary nobility and then doing more or less everything they can to re-create it.
In our short existence we’ve had two sets of father-and-son presidents, another set who were related by blood and marriage, and we might well be on our third or fourth Kennedy in the White House if not for a series of murders, accidents, and cover-ups.
