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Accordingly, the strength of Obama’s unifying political messages will undercut the importance of race as a defining factor in the success or failure of his presidential campaign. Far more important than his race will be his ability to excite his liberal base in the primaries. Given Obama’s eloquence and charismatic appeal, he ought to enhance his chances of winning the election by being politically courageous. If he were to take strong but carefully measured positions on key issues, he would not only be able to address the concerns of liberal Democrats, but also draw...
...death,” but wanted to show that the legal system was looking to convict him. “It was important to me to show that they didn’t prove it,” said Lyon. “Race is the single most important factor in who lives and who dies at the hands of the state,” she said after the event. “It’s the open secret that we keep not talking about.” Other participants agreed with the film’s focus...
...curators seem to have recognized the yawn-factor inherent in displaying 120 educational panels from a now-defunct museum—established by Francis Greenwood Peabody, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals from 1886-1913—that was once the cornerstone of the now-defunct Department of Social Ethics...
...most captivating photographs, however, do not neglect the human factor. In “Garabaldi Home Library”—taken by an anonymous photographer around the time of the founding of the Social Museum—we are privy to a group of “Italian boys of the North...
...gush scandal, contrive imagined scenes, and give undue importance to an ever-shuffling deck of secondary characters. This ratio, if it were inverted, might have made for an entertaining, perceptive, and focused presentation of the facts. Sadly, “American Bloomsbury” centers so much on shock factor that it completely breezes over necessary information (like a mention of the Bloomsbury Group—the 20th century British intellectual bohemians for whom this book is named). “American Bloomsbury” feels wedged between genres, stuck in limbo between educated reading and fluff. Cheever?...