During its last half-century of bloodstained elections, two populists, Ferdinand Marcos and Rodrigo Duterte, won exceptional power by combining the high politics of diplomacy with the low politics of performative violence, scattering corpses scarred by their signature brutality as if they were so many political pamphlets.
But given that so many of the pamphlets, books, cartoons, postcards, badges, games and trinkets displayed here require one to read small print or observe fine detail, visitors with anything less than 20/20 vision are at a disadvantage.
When he died in 1995, Seymour B. Durst owned so many books, maps, postcards, pamphlets, newspaper clippings and brochures about New York City that his five-story town house on East 61st Street was bursting at the seams.
Not only did the novel set numerous "writing mills a-going" in imitation, as one pamphlet had it, so many that its author had to authenticate with his signature all the copies of volumes five and six as they came off the press, it also reared its head in unexpected places.
New Hampshire officials have showered Mr. Romney with dozens of endorsements, so many that it took a three-page pamphlet — sent by the Romney campaign to New Hampshire voters recently — to list them all.
TLAXIACO, Mexico — Gabino Cué is running for governor of Oaxaca State as the candidate for so many parties that his campaign is handing out a pamphlet explaining how to mark the ballot.
Listening to the many and diverse demands and ideas that the Tea Partiers express in their rallies, pamphlets and oratory does relatively little to explain why so many Americans are so angry.
Looking back, summarising, quoting from earlier witnesses - from Orwell and Virginia Woolf, De Quincey and the anonymous author of the medieval poem London Lickpenny, which becomes the title of his own first pamphlet of verse - Ackroyd reveals what so much research, so many years of wandering the city, have granted him.
Highlights from the pamphlet include "Ann", who "reveals" in "her testimony" that she once took so many pills she started eating glass, and another time "tore rags with [her] teeth for an hour".
