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...Think of the unexpected friendship between the former Democratic Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill and the Republican Ronald Reagan based on after-hours tippling, storytelling and card games in the White...
...It all makes writing a biography difficult enough, but as Ronald Hutton points out in The Making of Oliver Cromwell, there are further problems....
...The social critic Maciej Ceglowski, quoted in the book, observes how “investing has become the genteel occupation of our gentry, like having a country estate used to be in England.”...
...Ronald Frame has been gnawing on Dickens’s Great Expectations and its choicest gobbet, Miss Havisham....
...But even Merchant Ivory, purveyors of cinematic porcelain to the gentry, would have hesitated over this particular tea set....
...The British middle class was traditionally a small, discrete group of educated and fairly well-off people, lodged between the nobility and the gentry above and the workers below....
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