Ok, so I’ve been tagged by Justin.

Here’s the game…

1. Pick up the nearest book ( of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.

So, what makes this especially fun for me is that the book closest to me is Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism!  So here goes it:

“Eleanor Roosevelt, too, believed that a “benevolent dictator” might be the only answer for America.  And it was hardly lost on the liberal intellectuals swirling around the Roosevelt administration that the enormously popular Benito Mussolini had used the same methods to whip the unruly Italians into shape.  After all, the New Republic–the intellectual home of the New Deal–had covered the goings-on in Italy with fascination and, often, admiration.” 

I don’t think I have five blog friends.

Either way, I’ll go with Dave Schuler of The Glittering Eye, Neo-neocon, Robert Stein of Connecting.the.Dots, Cernig of The Newshoggers and anybody who wants to carry the charge at Crooked Timber.     

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