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Giuliani, a Kiplingesque Fortune Hunter

By Robin Bates | Published: November 7, 2019

Rudy Giuliani resembles the fortune hunters in Kipling’s “The Man Who Would Be King.”

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The Tea Partiers Who Would Be Senators

By Robin Bates | Published: July 12, 2010

I was rereading Rudyard Kipling’s entertaining story The Man Who Would Be King the other day, and it got me thinking about some of the Tea Party candidates for Senate, like Sharron Angle in Nevada and Rand Paul in Kentucky.  Allow me to explain. Kipling’s 1888 work is about two enterprising good-for-nothings, Dravot and Carnehan, […]

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