That is not a good historical model for today.
Or, better yet, why not look at more than one historical model for comparison?
Do his sanity and his familiarity with historical models disqualify his work from being called outsider?
This makes sense — the historical model, the 1933 commission led by Ferdinand Pecora, is pretty impressive.
The characters in this book are a mixture of historical models and imaginary friends.
Another mistake Americans make in assessing the situation in Central America is to believe completely in the historical model.
Another highlight is the mechanical dolls of Vienna Waltz World, an exhibit in City Hall Park, which are based on historical models.
On a different scale, the historical models for this kind of massive effort at reconciliation and reconstruction are postwar Germany and Japan.
This mixture of illegal and legal, criminal and institutional, is actually the heart of the Mafia's historical model.
The heroes of Goldsmith's book — his historical models of presidential leadership in wartime — are Presidents Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
