Sir, your searing class warfare rhetoric is having precisely the opposite effect on the very people you need to win the next election, especially in highly entrepreneurial swing states like Colorado and Nevada.

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Johnson came into the Ashes last summer as the most highly rated fast bowler in world cricket, with expectations high that English conditions would help him find the swing that makes him so dangerous.

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"The Swing Era" might be uneven as a history of the music, but it shines as a highly opinionated and erudite survey from a brilliant mind with a golden ear and a precise pen.

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