Brian Kahn is an American

United States

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 author

Author

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 and radio

Radio

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 host. His program Home Ground is broadcast and distributed throughout Wyoming

Wyoming

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 and Montana

Montana

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, and was named Montana's Outstanding Non-Commercial Radio Program in 2002. Kahn is the winner of the 2009 Montana Governor's Award for the Humanities and a former president of the California

California

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 Fish and Game Commission. His book Real Common Sense, "a well-intentioned reflection on what it means to be a citizen in today's imperfect America," was published in 2011 by Seven Stories Press

Seven Stories Press

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