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3 unusual facts about Jeffrey Bruce Klein


Jeffrey Bruce Klein

In 1977, Klein became the magazine’s second managing editor; Adam Hochschild had been the first.

Returning in the 1990s to be Mother Jones’ editor-in-chief, Klein directed exposes of Newt Gingrich, Bob Dole, the top 400 political contributors in the U.S. and Donald Sipple, the Republican's star image-maker.

When Larry Flynt expressed an interest in distributing Mother Jones, Klein used the opportunity to do a “Born Again Porn” profile of Flynt and Hustler’s demographics, which were disclosed to be much broader than the presumed blue collar audience.



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