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Party movement of post-2008.

This paper analyzes one such example of Susan Huck, who earned a PhD
in geography in 19** at Clark University, taught for a short time in
in geography in 1962 at Clark University, taught for a short time in
American universities, and then went on to become a core public
intellectual voice for the John Birch Society. My analysis places her
inventions in context, working in two directions: 1) how Huck's
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## From Academic Geographer to Public Intellectual

Huck's disseration was a regional political geography of the British
Honduras. In a 1971 survey of work on political geography in Latin
America, Stan Brun et al cited Huck's disseration among a group of
work they characterized as focusing on "internal relations of
countries," though otherwise made no other mention of it. Indeed,
Huck's was a largely apolitical political geography of the prospects
for the territory's independence.

The following explores more in-depth the discourse of Huck's public
writing in _American Opinion_. In it, I identify three common topics
that, if superficially rather distinct, are bound together by a common
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