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Peter Shaw wrote American Patriots and the Rituals of Revolution; The War against the Intellect;and most recently, Recovering American Literature.He taught at the State University of New York at Stony Brook from 1965 to 1980. He died in August 1995.
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Shaw, P. Downward mobility and praise inflation. Society 33, 59–61 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02700309
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