Larry is the owner of the luxurious house we’re dog sitting in out in Stanford, California. His dog Charlie Brown is a bit of a handful, and has even chewed a fixable hole in the lining of my favorite jacket to try and get some gourmet licorice I’d bought. In general though he’s a well mannered dog that just wants some attention. We’d only met Larry briefly as we’d arrived at 2:30am and he left for LA the next day at midday. Here’s his long list of achievements: a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, founding co editor of the Journal of Democracy, and co director of the International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National Endowment for Democracy. He has also advised the U.S. Agency for International Development (whose 2002 report, Foreign Aid in the National Interest, he coauthored), the World Bank, the United Nations, the State Department, and other governmental and nongovernmental organizations. On top of all that he’s presently a Professor of Sociology and Political Science at Stanford University and has written two books – “The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout The World” and “Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq”
Larry’s not someone I plan on talking about politics with (I’d probably stay away from religion too).
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