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Socialist is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.

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Jay McInerney
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 13
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Hartford
Connecticut
Nastiest
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Socialist
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American
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