Sometimes I end up a bit perturbed at the most minor of grievances. Thus it is that I grated my teeth reading Charles Peters’s “Tilting at Windmills” in the June Washington Monthly and getting to his spiel on Adlai Stevenson, confronted with this:<\/p>\n
My father like many other Democrats of the 30s and 40s, thought of himself as a “common man”. Indeed, a liberal leader of that era even wrote a book called The Century of the Common Man<\/strong>, a term that disappared from the Democratic vocabulary with Stevenson’s Emergence. But in the 30s and 40s, men like my father valued the plain spekings of their heroes — Will Rogers, Roosevelt, and Truman, who cared more about making themselves clear to the average American than showing how smart they were.<\/em><\/p>\n How hard is to state that that “liberal leader” was Henry Wallace? Or does that lead into an unwanted segue into Henry Wallace and his politics?<\/p>\n Perhaps the prominent use of the phrase “Common Man” by a politician who lost favor by the American people as his association came to be as a Soviet Communist Dupe is part of the picture here.<\/p>\n I don’t know.\u00c2\u00a0 The absence of this detail does complicate the picture, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sometimes I end up a bit perturbed at the most minor of grievances. Thus it is that I grated my teeth reading Charles Peters’s “Tilting at Windmills” in the June Washington Monthly and getting to his spiel on Adlai Stevenson, confronted with this: My father like many other Democrats of the 30s and 40s, thought […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}