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Freedom, Vol. 1: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture
Amazon.com — A fascinating and inspiring work from an unlikely source. Who would have thought that a Marxist sociologist at Harvard could write a profoundly moving account of the history of freedom? Patterson delivers a highly readable account of the "three ...More…
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Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett
Amazon.com — Outraged Was My First Thought I was outraged that a first time offense could land this mother in prison for 15 to life is that justice No matter fact Hell to the No. Are drugs bad in the community well of course Yes. Although what she did was wrong by ...More…
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Harlem Stomp! A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance
Amazon.com — Young adults (and even older ones!) will love this book This book is a visual feast and a joy to browse; the graphic design captures the energy of the Harlem Renaissance. It's like a scrapbook jammed with "rent party" tickets, dinner ...More…
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Where Shall I Wander: New Poems
Amazon.com — The Wonders of Wandering: Ashbery's New Poems It would be easy to review this book in light of Mr Ashbery's pre-eminent position in contemporary American poetry, sprinkling references to the dazzling virtuosity that has filled each of his more ...More…
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Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 ...
Amazon.com — Poetry does not exist to make you comfortable I feel compelled to respond to the person who found the opening poem "racist" because the speaker says "another child has killed a child / and i catch myself relieved that they are / white ...More…
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Worshipful Company of Fletchers
Amazon.com — Amazon.com Review Winner of the National Book Award in 1994, The Worshipful Company of Fletchers is fresh and startling. Like his doppelgangers Jeff Koons in sculpture and Stephen Malkmus in rock music, Tate is a self-consciously cool comedian of ...More…
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Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 ...
Amazon.com — Jean Valentine is a rock star She says the most with the least. Her poems to me are perfect. They are the ones you whisper to yourself. They are the secret things you would write in your school notebook when you knew no one was looking. They should be put ...More…
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Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems
Amazon.com — Amazon.com Review The New York Times Book Review wrote that William Meredith's poetry "suggests that we can recognize the hardest truths about ourselves and still live in the world." This collection, a summing up of Meredith's best ...More…
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United States
Amazon.com — Gore Vidal, United States First, for those readers solely interested in the quality of this essay collection, my advice is simple. If you enjoy the essay form, buy this collection! There is no better essayist alive. In the USA, Vidal stands beside Emerson ...More…
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The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Amazon.com — Amazon.com Review Sometimes, the legacy of depression includes a wisdom beyond one's years, a depth of passion unexperienced by those who haven't traveled to hell and back. Off the charts in its enlightening, comprehensive analysis of this ...More…
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The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
Amazon.com — Amazon.com Review In three newly democratic countries in Eastern Europe (East Germany, the Czech Republic, and Poland), communism's former victims and jailers are struggling to make sense of their history - and sometimes rewrite it. In this ...More…