In the plain text version words in Italics are denoted by _underscores_
and text in bold like =this=.
In the text the author uses the word "flaunt" in this sentence:
_And these maxims are not merely empty phrases, for in the novel
the politicians who flaunt them fail._
Based on the context it is believed that the correct word should be
"flout".
A number of words in this book have both hyphenated and non-hyphenated
variants. For the words with both variants present the one more used
has been kept.
Obvious punctuation and other printing errors have been corrected.
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