I read Lincoln: Team of Rivals not too long back. It was a long boring book (and I can't help but picture Mary Lincoln as Sally Fields), but the one thing I found sort of interesting was how very little politics have changed - except of course in it's technological advances. At least this Author (Doris Kearns Goodwin) portrayed the politics just as full of back room deals, underhanded planning, back-stabbing (proverbial) etc. The one difference, I noted, was the newspapers back then seemed like they were much more open platforms for a particular candidate or party. In fact the newspaper big wigs seemed to have much sway in how the elections went down.
I'm currently reading The Normans. Politics are much more straight forward in the first milllenium. You fight off your rivals, or if you want a longer term relationship, you pay them off.
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