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Excerpt from
Three Liberal Lives
Born on 10.15.08
Eric Alterman
The liberal media | posted May 11, 2006 (May 29, 2006
issue)
John Kenneth Galbraith died on April 29 at age 97,
ending one of the most consequential liberal lives of
the past century. As it happened, his death came just
days after those of two other giants of American
liberalism: Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg at age 84 and the
Rev. William Sloane Coffin at 81. It would take up much
of this magazine just to list the scholarly, literary,
political, even prophetic achievements of these three,
as well as to describe the myriad ways the world is a
better place for their having lived in it. Here are just
a few highlights.
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