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The man who thinks the polls disagreeable and uninteresting places has no business taking up a pen to write about government.
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gutenberg.orgWoodrow Wilson: “The man who thinks the polls disagreeable and uninteresting places has no business taking up a pen to write about…”
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Wilson asserts that a writer on government must engage with the realities of public opinion and politics.
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