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Robert W. SnyderRobert W Snyder is an associate professor of journalism and media studies at Rutgers-Newark University. Recent articlesTo Iraq and back with the National Guard A TV documentary series about “citizen-soldiers” in Iraq and their families at home is a moving portrait that exposes growing doubts about the war, says Robert W Snyder. Gangs of New York gets New York City wrongMartin Scorsese’s epic depiction of gang warfare in 19th-century New York is a mythology not based in, but stolen from history. Behind the inaccuracies of detail is a wider failure to grasp that the progress of the city was built not on violence, but on work and human solidarity. A Congressional vote is not a national mandateThe US legislature has sanctioned the president to assault Iraq. George W. Bush has won a political victory, but the American people have yet to speak. |
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