SOURCE: Kansas City Star
7-20-13
tags: Jonathan Sperber, Karl Marx, Kansas City Star, The Daily Show
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7-20-13
Jonathan Sperber: Don't underestimate reach of "The Daily Show"
Historians in the Newstags: Jonathan Sperber, Karl Marx, Kansas City Star, The Daily Show
Don’t underestimate the reach of “The Daily Show.”
After Jonathan Sperber, a University of Missouri history professor, appeared on the show in April to discuss “Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life,” his biography of the German philosopher and revolutionary, he heard from several old friends.
“That included the girl I had a crush on in 1966,” Sperber said recently....
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