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The Underground Railroad

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Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America

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"... the Right never thinks that anything much needs to be changed: it thinks the country is basically in good shape, and may well have been in better shape in the past. It sees the Left's struggle for social justice as mere troublemaking, as utopian foolishness. The Left, by definition, is the party of hope. It insists that our nation remains unachieved." — Aug 23, 2017 10:42AM

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