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  <name><![CDATA[Rich Benjamin]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Rich Benjamin likes to entertain, read, travel, golf, and eat.  

Currently, he is Senior Fellow at Demos, a nonpartisan, multi-issue think tank. His social and political commentary is featured in newspapers nationwide, on NPR and Fox Radio, in the blogosphere, and in many scholarly venues.

Rich earned his BA in political science from Wesleyan University and his PhD in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University.

He is a member of the Authors Guild and the National Book Critics Circle.
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  <title><![CDATA[Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America]]></title>
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  <published>2009</published>  
  
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