ad a certain elitist attitude which colored their thinking, especially about themselves:
They had a sense of their own special status--whether of wealth or social standing or talent--which they felt they deserved. They also believed in representative government and in the agencies it created (Blum et al. 508).
They comforted themselves with the belief that candidates like themselves would be the ones who would represent the people.
The 1920s was an era marked by trends that seemed to carry the country in different directions. On the one hand there w
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