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Tribal Warfare in America

By Rick Perlstein, Columbia Journalism Review. Posted November 16, 2004.


A 30-year-old book by a progressive journalist finds that the passions of reformers can sometimes betray a contempt for the common sense of ordinary people. Sound familiar?

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