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12. Jeff Faux, “The Party of Davos,” Nation (February 13, 2006): 18–22; David Moberg, “Class
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25. Kendall, Framing Class, 21–58, 93–136.
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31. Julie Holler, Janine Jackson, and Hilary Goldstein, “Outside (and Inside) Influence on the
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