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And that is quite apart from his politics.  I took a optional 1-credit reading course on radical politics just to see what the fuss was about.  If there was a worse representative for an already controversial point of view,  H. Bruce was the title holder in the Stanford orbit.  We were exposed to him on campus quite a bit without trying, but attendance at some of Franklin's public lectures were part of the course. When the leader of the reading section got all dewy-eyed when describing him as some bright light for the academic world,  I was sitting in the back of the room wondering:  "Were you guys at the same event I was? "  Read maybe half the recommended reading list,  got the general idea and bagged on the course. Even then, even for academic credit,  life was too short to worship H. Bruce.

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And that is quite apart from his politics.  I took a optional 1-credit reading course on radical politics just to see what the fuss was about.  If there was a worse representative for an already controversial point of view,  H. Bruce was the title holder in the Stanford orbit.  We were exposed to him on campus quite a bit without trying, but attendance at some of Franklin's public lectures were part of the course. When the leader of the reading section got all dewy-eyed when describing him as some bright light for the academic world,  I was sitting in the back of the room wondering:  "Were you guys at the same event I was? "  Read maybe half the recommended reading list,  got the general idea and bagged on the course. Even then, even for academic credit,  life was too short to worship H. Bruce.