” Once an unabashed defender of laissez-faire capitalism, he now depicts the U.S. Black now prefers the company of jailbirds to the hypocritical “habitués of the boxes at the Metropolitan Opera House and the most exalted socioeconomic echelons of the Style section of the Sunday New York Times. But underneath the patrician tone lies a new message, one that Black circa 2002 would have found eccentric, perhaps even appalling. This ermine-trimmed Black has not altogether disappeared from the face of the world: Readers of A Matter of Principle will find plenty of high-flown, lordly prose and name-dropping from an author not wanting in self-regard. Black candidly admits in his new book, helped sink him in the public-relations war he waged against his corporate enemies and the U.S. His generous literary appreciation of all four leaders reflected the old-fashioned conservative fetishes for hierarchy, elitism and the flamboyant indulgences of great men - haughty reflexes that, as Mr. His political heroes - FDR, Nixon, Duplessis, De Gaulle - all exhibited authoritarian tendencies, and possessed a diminished regard for the political checks and balances that bind ordinary politicians. Black always has been obsessed by power and the men who wield it.
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