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It's an old history, Ned.

David Halberstam recorded some of its chapters in "The Best and the Brightest."

Mark Twain got more in "Innocents Abroad."

Is it a side-show of democracy -- that we have to accept that rubes, ridge-runners, barbarians, yahoos, flim-flam artists, and fictional families Amberson, Snopes, Hubbard, Kane, Stark and more will also run with their freedom?

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