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Craig’s 2023 Year in Books
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Craig Werner
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A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America
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1998
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We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
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2015
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Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul
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2004
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Up around the Bend: The Oral History Of Creedence Clearwater Revival
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1999
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Dubliners: A Pluralistic World (Masterworks Studies, No 20)
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1988
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Playing The Changes: From Afro-Modernism To The Jazz Impulse
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1994
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Love and Happiness: Eros According to Dante, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, and the Rev. Al Green
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2014
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Adrienne Rich: The Poet and Her Critics
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1988
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Paradoxical Resolutions: American Fiction since James Joyce
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1982
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Black American Women Novelists
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1989
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| Caro is quite properly recognized as the finest biographer and historian of the nuts and bolts of the American political system. No one has provided deeper insight into the question of how power works. Both his biography of Robert Moses, The Power Br ...more | |
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| Operation Wandering Soul, named after a bizarre psychological warfare operation during the Vietnam war era--the U.S. broadcast the voices of "deceased ancestors" over villages--is probably Powers' most difficult, but also deeply rewarding novels. The ...more | |
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| Pratchett novels come in different flavors and this one is among the most serious of his engagements with political issues. The complicated "time travel" (sort of) plot lands Sam Vimes in an early phase of Ankh Morpork history where he winds up mento ...more | |
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| McBride is wonderful with characters and setting; his plots tend to get overly convoluted. Loved the sense of Black/Puerto Rican life in the late 60s. Probably a bit thin on the politics of the period, but a good fun read. | |
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| Although celebrated by Adrienne Rich and others, Rukeyser remains one of the most clearly undervalued poets of the 20th century. She's best known for her political testimony poems of the 1930s (A Turning Wind, Theory of Flight) and, among people who ...more | |
“....Charles laughingly observed,'Gospel and the blues are really, if you break it down, almost the same thing. It's just a question of whether you're talkin' about a woman or God.”
― Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul
― Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul
“Rarely bothering to temper his language, Wallace made the racial subtexts of issues like busing and promiscuity clear. His strong showings in the Wisconsin and Michigan primaries demonstrated unambiguously that race was not simply a Southern issue. Any candidate capable of tapping the fears of white working-class males, especially those living in districts bordered by black ghettos, had an excellent chance of undercutting the traditional Democratic coalition.”
― A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race And The Soul Of America
― A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race And The Soul Of America
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