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I suppose some readers will have a hard time getting past the cover of The Controversialist, the new memoir by Martin Peretz, longtime editor of the New Republic. First there's the cover photo. It shows the author recumbent and smiling and sprouting a wooly thatch of chest hair from the opening of a linen shirt. Martin Peretz is 84 years old.
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