http://www.amazon.com/Proud-Tower-Portrait-Before-1890-1914/dp/0345405013

https://www.google.com/search?q=tuchman%3B+tower&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

There's really nothing new under the sun, read Tuchman, about the 1890s. or Eric Zencey's Panama, if you want the fictional version, along with Bely's Petersburg, the only difference is the Anarchists, haven't turned serious
violent, as with Sadi Carnot, Canovas, McKinley or name a Czarist figure, of your choice

I don't mind someone coming to the wrong conclusion, but to get the wrong analysis is less excusable, from the Krauthammer piece;

Take that ad Gingrich did with Nancy Pelosi on global warming advocating urgent government action. He laughs it off today with “that is probably the dumbest single thing I’ve done in recent years. It is inexplicable.”

This will not do. He was obviously thinking something. What was it? Thinking of himself as a grand world-historical figure, attuned to the latest intellectual trend (preferably one with a tinge of futurism and science, like global warming), demonstrating his own incomparable depth and farsightedness. Made even more profound and fundamental — his favorite adjectives — if done in collaboration with a Nancy Pelosi, Patrick Kennedy, or even Al Sharpton, offering yet more evidence of transcendent, trans-partisan uniqueness.

Well Schmidt threw the match back in 2008, with McCain's consent I'm sad to say, worse than the 1919 Black Sox, and he and Nicole Wallace, 'poisoned the well; to cover their tracks. Cain had certain shortcomings, but he was taken down most
by the same mechanism that has cleared a path for much of Obama's carrier, since he started in 1995,