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Senator John Kennedy (Louisiana)

Ambrose Bierce’s “The Party Manager and the Gentleman”*

Posted on December 27, 2025December 27, 2025 by John Lubans

While reading Senator John Kennedy’s book, “How to Test Negative for Stupid” (2025) I harked back to Bierce’s biting commentary on American politicians. Bierce had no use for fools, so he would have been delighted to meet Mr. Kennedy, an Oxford graduate, a native of Louisiana and a top notch lawyer. Mr. Kennedy tells, in…

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