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Includes newspaper columns by Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, James Madison, Willian Lloyd Garrison, Margaret Fuller, James Russell Lowell, Frederick Douglass, Frederick Law Olmstead, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Lafcadio Hearn, Joel Chandler Harris, Ambrose Bierce, Ring Lardner, H.L. Mencken, Will Rogers, Ben Hecht, Heywood Broun, E.B. White, Damon Runyon, Walter Winchell, Dorothy Thompson, Westbrook Pegler, Ernie Pyle, Walter Lippmann, James Reston, Joseph and Stewart Alsop, Mary McGrory, I.F. Stone, Langston Hughes, Art Buchwald, Russell Baker, William F. Buckley, Jr., Mike Royko, George F. Will, William Safire, Lewis Grizzard, Calvin Trillin, Molly Ivins, Dave Barry, among others.