A Towering Program, Already
Runciman not only describes his great liberal and reactionary subjects in concise, beautiful prose; he puts them into conversation with each other, layering each new episode over the prior entries, and for this reason the listener feels not lost in a maze of perspectives but lifted up to the clear, broad vantage of the master.
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