A lot of my idealism was fr... by David Talbot, an American Journalist

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“A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything.”

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Name: David Talbot

Nationality: American

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Profession: Journalist

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