upper-class presidents." Still, Americans of more modest origins
 
may be glad to know, one of the chief jus- tices ranked the authors as among the very greatest, Earl Warren, rose from quite humble beginnings. He was, it seems, a true aristocrat.
Liberalism at Bay "Race" by Thomas Byrne Edsall with Mary D. Edsall, in The
Atlantic (May 1991), 745 Boylston St., Boston, Mass. 02116.
The Democratic Party, which has lost five of the last six presidential elections, has a serious...