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"As a long-time Member of Congress and first-time novelist, I've wondered how Harper Lee's character would do in a world where bedrock principles turn to muck-shaped and glazed by pollsters and media consultants. How would soft-spoken Atticus Finch come across on cable news spew? Could he survive some SuperPAC's million-dollar TV ad assault? Would a six-figure opposition research report make him consider the benefits of, say, corporate litigation instead of defending the poor and oppressed? "