Samuel Moyn

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ISBN 978 1 910702 92 5), London Review of Books , vol. 42, no. 3 (6 February 2020), pp. 23–25. Moyn concludes his review, on p. 25: "[Packer's book] Our Man may be the most vivid tour of America's foreign delusions that has been offered since the Vietnam War."
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    Samuel Moyn
    Born
    Samuel Aaron Moyn

    1972 (age 5152)
    NationalityAmerican
    TitleHenry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and Professor of History at Yale University
    Academic background
    Education University City High School (St. Louis)
    Alma mater Washington University in St. Louis (AB)
    UC Berkeley (PhD)
    Harvard Law School (JD)