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Questia in 1973, lillie heads family faced some catastrophic news. Steven brill born august 22, 1950 is an american lawyer, journalist, and entrepreneur who founded monthly magazine the american lawyer and cable channel court tv. Rachel aviv is a staff writer at the new yorker and was a 2019 national fellow at new america. Americas bitter pill author steven brill on obamacare. Dec 19, 2019 science and nature books the case for the green new deal by ann pettifor. The challenge of going off psychiatric drugs the new yorker. Steven brill has 11 books on goodreads with 883 ratings.
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