
Dukakis; Supreme Spartan Folly; Bacteria That Devours Oil; Canute v. XerxesWhen the election of 1988 loomed, I was 26, my wife 25, and our daughter ten months. We were very much self-involved with our own little family tribe of three and not much interested in the election between George H.W. Bush and Michael Dukakis. But we decided to watch one of the…