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Title: Almost Laughable
Review: I picked up this book simply because I was interested in a "snapshot" of the city of my birth (Washington, D.C.) in the year of my birth (1951). I was disappointed, to say the least.The authors' racist and homophobic attitudes are almost laughable. They can be explained away, I suppose (though not excused), by the times they were living in. After a while, though, there was nothing even to laugh at. It was like being bludgeoned over the head, again and again, with the same prejudices.Even more surprising was the authors' almost virulent hated of Eleanor Roosevelt. They never missed an opportunity to attack her. To hear them talk, you'd think she was personally responsible for almost all of D.C.'s ills.Yes, these guys (Lait and Mortimer) were truly amazing. They called themselves "hard-hitting", but they were really gigantic reactionaries. Next to them, Rush Limbaugh looks like Michael Moore.
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