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Eric Klinenberg

Author of Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America’s Media. He is an associate professor of sociology at NYU and joins us now from the Stanford University studio in Palo Alto, California.

StoryAug 25, 1997

DEATH AT THE BORDER

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