A serial review of books numbering the States after a dissolution of the Union.
A review of Around the Cragged Hill: A Personal and Political Philosophy (W.W. Norton, 1993) by George F. Kennan and The Nine Nations of North America (Houghton Mifflin, 1981) by Joel Garreau.
Although his suggestion that the United States might be better off breaking into 12 parts is detailed on only three pages (pages149-151), which conclude with his own assessment that its realization is largely a “pipe dream,” it is clear that Kennan wrote in earnest, taking up another side of the argument in three more pages of his epilogue (pp253-255). There, his previous demurral is put aside with the observation that the political difficulty of the “pipe dream” does not detract from its rightness: in politics, as in science, thoughts do not necessarily have to have a visible immediate utility in order to have value. (p254)
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