Tag Archives: USA
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
Reading On This Date: October 24…
One of the benefits of having a list of books I’ve read over the past decade, is that I can post the occasional “what was I reading on this date X years ago” entry. So looking at October 24th: 1999, … Continue reading
Ulysses S. Grant
Over the weekend I watched the 4 hour PBS documentary on Ulysses S. Grant “Warrior – President” which I’d wholeheartedly recommend to anyone interested in the US Civil War and its immediate aftermath (and frankly, its continued reverberations 100+ years … Continue reading
Recent Lit Events Attended (Sept-Oct 2009)
In the last two weeks, I’ve seen Ralph Nader speak about “Only the Super Rich Can Save Us” and Jacqueline Edelberg speak about “How to Walk to School” at the University of Chicago’s International House and Divinity School respectively. To … Continue reading
Zeitoun & Dave Eggers
I don’t want to jinx this, but I’ve really enjoyed the first 50 pages of ”Zeitoun“. Zeitoun is the story of a Syrian-American Hurricane Katrina survivor penned by Dave Eggers. Eggers has a gift for this style of biography, working … Continue reading
Filed under 2009, literature
Booklog: May 2009
May 2009 was a remarkably busy month for me reading-wise! Here’s the list: You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America by Paul Tough On Chesil Beach by Ian … Continue reading
Filed under 2009, africa, history, literature, sociology
Rashid Khalidi @ UCHICAGO (March 10, 2009)
Tonight I got the opportunity to hear Rashid Khalidi speak at the University of Chicago on his new book “Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East“. The talk was a fairly straight-forward account of the … Continue reading
