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Black underclass gets its Dickens

By Jacob Weisberg

Published: September 13 2006 20:22 | Last updated: September 13 2006 20:22

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The Wire, a US police drama that has just begun its fourth season on HBO, is the best television show ever broadcast in America. No other programme has ever come close to doing what it does, namely portraying the social, political and economic life of an American city with the scope, precision and moral vision of great literature.

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