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This edition first published 1969 by arrange-
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Copyright © 1964, 1965, 1968 by Walter
Goodman
Foreword by Richard H. Rovere
© 1968 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The author is grateful to The New York Times,
The American Scholar, and The Nation, in
which portions of The Committee originally
appeared in slightly different form, for permis-
sion to reprint the material.
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