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Booklog: April 2010 (American Apartheid)

In the spirit of completeness, let me look back to April of this year… The only book I read was Massey’s classic “American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass” which looked at the scale, mechanisms, and destructive effects … Continue reading

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Running to Maputo by Albie Sachs (March 2009)

Shortly after hearing Albie Sachs speak at the University of Chicago in January 2009, I sought out copies of his books on Swaptree.   The first to reach me, was “Running to Maputo” (1990), which chronicles Sachs’s physical and emotional recovery … Continue reading

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