Clay Risen is an editor at the New York Times and author of A Nation on Fire: America in the Wake of the King Assassination. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Republic, and elsewhere.
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Clay Risen is an editor at the New York Times and author of A Nation on Fire: America in the Wake of the King Assassination. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Republic, and elsewhere.
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