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Yale Law School: Professor John Fabian Witt Writes What Happened When Money Backed Radical Dreams
October 15, 2025
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Oct. 15 -- Yale Law School issued the following news:

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Professor John Fabian Witt Writes What Happened When Money Backed Radical Dreams

When an idealistic young heir to a Wall Street banking fortune named Charles Garland turned down a million-dollar inheritance in 1920, the writer Upton Sinclair wrote him with a different idea: accept the money and then start a foundation to give it away.

So begins the latest book b . . .

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