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ii
Also see Waisbord (1993, 208-210) who questions the distinctiveness of populist leadership in the Latin
American context.
iii
Populist critics respond by suggesting that populists have a predilection for supporting leaders with clear
tendencies for extra-constitutional measure (Shils 1956, 103). A standard feature of populist/anti-populist
debate involves disagreements as to exactly who are exemplary leaders of populist movements (Pollack
1960; Goodwyn 1976; Waisbord 2003).
iv
Also see Taguieff (1997) in his analyis of French populism.
v
Even recent populist sympathizers express concern over the extent to which” right-wing populism” has
crowed out other variants (Kazin, 245-66; Lasch, 476-508.).
vi
At the novel’s end, Eve Frame is exposed by her husband as “passing” as well.
vii
Father/son relationships are a central focus of all of Roth’s fiction. He examines his own in the memoir
Patrimony (1991). See: Milowitz (2000, 61-86).
viii
Merry tells her father that her stutter subsides when she makes bombs.
ix
Nussbaum does note the value in empathizing the “enclosed, enraged world” of Bigger Thomas in
Richard Wright’s Native Son (431).
x
See also Roth’s own characterization of American society in “Writing American Fiction” in Reading
Myself and Others (1985) and Our Gang (1971).
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