RUNNING FOR CONGRESS

“Think I'll walk to work,” I said. “The weather is nice and the Senate isn't far,” I said. “Maybe I'll chat with a few constituents,” I said...

Above, an entry in the long running set of thrillers and mysteries published by Amalgamated Press, Ltd. under the umbrella of The Sexton Blake Library between 1930 and 1960. This one by John Drummond is number 240, appeared in bookstores in 1950, and illustrates (to us at least) the danger involved when a politician has the momentary delusion he is anything more than the sock puppet of billionaires and corporations. One way or another this will be the last time he doesn’t take his armored limousine.

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