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Review: 'Sweet Land of Liberty' by Thomas J. Sugrue

SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North, by Thomas J. Sugrue. Random House, 720 pp., $35.

The election of Barack Obama - whose biography unifies Third World immigrant and hardscrabble prairie pioneer, black and white - calls into question the rigid dichotomies that have defined the American conflict over inequality. Thomas Sugrue's evocative and richly documented...

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