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aristocles

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3. "Roosevelt's unfinished revolution may be destined to stay unfinished, ...
Tue Jan 29, 2013, 04:18 PM
Jan 2013

...for reasons embedded in our history and values."

So said David Kennedy in his review of Sunstein's "The Second Bill of Right", in the NYT, September 19, 2004.

Kennedy went on to note:


Most important are several distinctive conditions, including the absence of a working-class political party, the persistence of largely delusional expectations of social mobility and tensions along the racial and ethnic frontiers that have long seamed American society.
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