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One of the problems with fame … is they try to pigeonhole you… like I’m stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.

— Charles A. Reich Washington Post in (1987)

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As quoted in Washington Post in (1987) and "Charles Reich’s Journey From the Yale Law Journal to the New York Times Best-Seller List: The Personal History of The Greening of America" by Rodger Citron, in The New York Law School Law Review, Vol. 52, (2007/2008), p. 416

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