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American political history chronicles a people who topple a hereditary aristocracy only to devote themselves to recreating it in various guises.
In our brief tenure we’ve witnessed two generations of father-and-son presidents, another cohort connected by blood and marriage, and we may well be marching toward a third—or even a fourth—Kennedy in the White House if not for a string of murders, accidents, and cover-ups.
