Even among those prone to view the governing structure of economic activity with deep suspicion or, at the very least, resigned dismay, there has generally been a belief that whatever else business does, it undeniably does do what it does.
I Heroic icons produced by the story of American history have often been put to use in the service of the office of the presidency, typically to harmonize as well as possible the President’s preexisting personality traits or image with a ready-made figure evocative of “the real America” or “what America is all about.“
“He decreed, too, that blind men were forbidden to sing ballads about miracles, unless they had reliable evidence that such things had indeed happened, because it seemed to him that the miracles most blind men sing about were imaginary, and this was harmful to those which were in fact true.” —Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quijote
