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Craig’s 2025 Year in Books
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| On re-reading with several friends, 2026, Absalom hit home even harder than it has before. Faulkner's excavation of America's inability to come to terms with its own contradictions feels absolutely contemporary. Sutpen's decision to replicate the sys ...more | |
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| Quick note to start: the title should really include Gregory Bateson along with Margaret Mead since their stories are so intricately wound together. I know that the press's marketing decision--Bateson doesn't have the same name recognition. But his p ...more | |
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| One of the very best books for anyone who wants to understand the radical 1960s. The son of prominent Weatherpeople Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn (the de facto leader of the faction that broke from SDS in 1969), Ayers Dohrn is uniquely situated to ...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
“It's been forty years since Sam Cooke promised that a change was gonna come. Change came and change is coming still. Our history's still being lived. What it will be is up to us. Holler if ya hear me. p. 361.”
― A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America
― A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| The History Book ...: R&B | 242 | 543 | Nov 14, 2023 12:54AM | |
| Around the World ...: Switzerland | 24 | 784 | Mar 01, 2025 11:35AM |
