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Fairness and Freedom by David Hackett Fischer — WisdomDeck honest review

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Fairness and Freedom

by David Hackett Fischer

Why America built its open society on freedom and New Zealand on fairness: two founding cultures compared across three centuries. Magisterial.

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Founding values persist.
Fairness and freedom differ.
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