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This article appeared in the December 10, 2007 edition of The Nation.

November 20, 2007

ALBERT SHANKER'S UFT

New Haven, Conn.

I was as surprised to see myself keening for a "big tent" liberalism in Thomas J. Sugrue's "Albert Shanker Blows Up the World" [Nov. 12] as I imagine Sugrue was to see me holding forth elsewhere in the same issue of The Nation. And he may be more surprised by my review of Richard Kahlenberg's Shanker biography in the "big tent" Democracy Journal (www.democracyjournal.com) in December. I fault Shanker much as Sugrue does, especially on foreign policy, although Clay Risen, Democracy Journal's managing editor, notes that Sugrue's Shanker seems to have slept more easily with his blunders than my Shanker did.

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About Thomas J.Sugrue

Thomas J. Sugrue, the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of The Origins of the Urban Crisis and, most recently, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Unfinished Struggle for Racial Equality in the North (forthcoming this fall from Random House). more...
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