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Debate on campaign finance reform: David Donelly, Janice Fine, and Ellen Miller’s “Going Public,” with responses by Senator Russell Feingold, Douglas Phelps, Joshua Rosenkranz, Bruce Ackerman, Thomas Mann, and others. Also: “Little Bit,” an oral history of the civil rights movement, an essay by Lindsay Waters on European cultural unity and Alan Stone on Hamlet. Plus Marjorie Perloff on the Yasusada hoax, poetry, book reviews and much more.
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