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This is the folly into which Gordon Brown's Treasury welfarism led us.

In this book, deploying his knowledge of the terrain, he can amplify a source's terse account of a near-death-trail folly into pages of nail-biting drama.

Yet we are pragmatists and opportunists, in the best and worst senses, a people inclined to turn the remains of past folly into something better.

Neoconservatives have tried to transmute the war from a tragic folly into a heroic endeavor undermined by quislings, and the entertainment industry has turned the 60's into caricature, warping both the war and its time into cliché and myth.

Most arresting of all is his declaration in the Confutation of Tyndale that were anyone to translate his earlier Latin writings and Erasmus's Folly into English, he would burn the books with his own hands, "rather than folk should (though through their own fault) take any harm of them".

Not so cool with making Bush's Folly into one, though.

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Born: New York, 1930 Career: Stage musicals include Company, Follies, Into the Woods, Sunday in the Park with George and Sweeney Todd.

The other major distraction was the presence of celebrated old-timers like Betty Garrett and Marge Champion: delightful in themselves but turning "Follies" into a weepy nostalgia show.

This is a fantastical sub-aquatic folly magicked into life by combined mega-tranches of cash and creativity.

There are fewer intrusions from fly-Jacob and Jacob's Folly clicks into gear; if you can get past the intermittent clumsiness of the first 10 chapters, it becomes a genuine pleasure to read.

Another wonderful editor stepped in to usher my new novel, Folly Cove, into print in October 2016.

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