In his essay “Of Tax Cuts and Those $10 Million Bat Mitzvahs” (The New York Times, 25 Feb 07, section 3, pg. 1) columnist Ben Stein begins his essay with an homage to the grounded-in-reality idealism of Martin Luther King.
“I read Marshall Frady’s awesome biography of Martin Luther King Jr. Wow, what that man went through. What Southern blacks have gone through. It is fortunate beyond belief that providence sent a man as great as Dr. King to redeem the soul of the nation.”
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