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> On Oct 2, 2009, at 1:07 PM, SA wrote:
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> I didn't know Ridgeway and Kopkind were at the New Republic...I would
>> guess this was before the Peretz regime?
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> Way before! That's the era when my father-in-law worked there too. And
> Ralph Nader walked in off the street with his stuff about auto safety.
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> And when my parents still subscribed, to TNR and The Progressive - they
dropped the former before the latter but both in the late-70s, early-80s.
I just read what they had around the house at the time, wish they'd take the
NY and London Reviews of Books...