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Stephen Fried is an award-winning journalist and a New York Times bestselling author who teaches at Columbia and Penn. His books include The New Rabbi, Appetite for America, Thing of Beauty, and A Common Struggle (with Patrick Kennedy); he has won two National Magazine Awards. Fried and his wife live in Philadelphia blocks from where Dr. Benjamin Rush lived.