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| | AmericanHeritage.com / Blog: June 17–24, 2006 |
 | | Gordon Wood, a Brown University historian who is one of the foremost authorities on the American Revolution, and who has spent decades reading and analyzing the political discourse of the eighteenth century, writes the following in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Radicalism of the American Revolution: “Most of the revolutionary leaders. |
 | | Gerrymandering, I’ve no doubt, is one of the reasons American politics has become so uncivil in recent years: The extremes, ever more influential, have become the tails that wag the dog of political discourse. |
 | | Surely there was some steel and fire to Haskins that made him the first coach in the south to face the inevitable storm of scorn and protest that he knew would follow his decision, but the script, by Chris Cleveland, Bettina Gilois, and Gregory Allen Howard, never begins to deal with this. |
| www.americanheritage.com /blog/20066_17_24.shtml (4134 words) |
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