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Lipman's Life and Work
Lipman was a child of privilege he attended the SACS school for boys before matriculating into Harvard now SACHS you might recognize that name somewhere with a Goldman in front of it right like Goldman Sachs yes and this is where he studied at Harvard under the famous philosopher and novelist George Santiana. In 1913 Lipman co-founded a paper called The New Republic it's a liberal American magazine that published articles on politics and and the arts in that same year he published a book called A Preface to Politics which garnered the attention of one Woodrow Wilson.
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