A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton
- ISBN-10
- 0374514852
- ISBN-13
- 9780374514853
- Series
- A Sense of Where You Are
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography / Political
- Pages
- 224
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1978-10-01
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Author
- John McPhee
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