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Communism, Capitalism and the Third Thanksgiving
NPR: Communism, Capitalism and the Third Thanksgiving Paul Solman: It being Thanksgiving, we give today's post to Governor William Bradford of the Plymouth Colony, built by pious Protestant purists backed by profit-seeking investors. Bradford tells the story of the tough Massachusetts winter of 1623 and how the colony barely survived, unable to raise enough food…