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Robert Darnton - I arrived from Harvard, where I had...
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought. (Robert Darnton)

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

Robert Darnton

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