Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

—Russell Baker

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Russell Wayne Baker (August 14, 1925 – January 21, 2019) was an American journalist, narrator, writer of Pulitzer Prize-winning satirical commentary and self-critical prose, and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography Growing Up (1982). He was a columnist for The New York Times for 36 years, and hosted eleven seasons...

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