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Perlstein tries hard to allow reader to discern truth but sublimal message comes through anyway.
When writing about events that many can still remember watching on television, media hype and political posturing have left a generation able to tell it like it is but somehow not like it was.
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Perlstein tries hard to allow reader to discern truth but sublimal message comes through anyway.When writing about events that many can still remember watching on television, media hype and political posturing have left a generation able to tell it like it is but somehow not like it was.
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