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Starts slow, but provides good examples to illustrate what might otherwise slip by. So far, talks about close and slow reading of word choice, telling detail.

James loves the word tragic in the preface. Interesting ideas on 'unity' making Paris great, and on the misery caused by progress. Disdainful of America, and of modernism. Classicist, somewhat socialist leanings. James has wide, arcane understanding of what makes a city. So far, history of Louis-Napoleon's entry into French politics, and reputation as a social reformer. Election, frustration at lazy assembly, coup.