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Jerry Weinberger is professor of political science at Michigan State University, where he is cp-director of the LeFrak Forum. He is the author most recently of Benjamin Franklin Unmasked: On the Unity of His Moral, Relgious, and Political Thought (University Press of Kansas).
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