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Carson, who is also the director and senior editor of the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project, pieced together King's writings, correspondences and interviews into what reads as a firstperson narrative of King's life...
...work ethic is incredible. She was the firstperson to practice, running before everyone elsegot there, and then, if she felt she didn't have ahard enough workout, she'd run again afterwards,"Kleinfelder says. "She worked very hard, and yetwasn't compulsive about...
...studying the legislature, Merculieff saysshe is learning skills she would use if shedecides to become a lobbyist on behalf of her homeisland's seal harvest, replacing the currentnon-Aleut lobbyists. Merculieff will be the firstperson from her town of 500 to get a mastersdegree and she says that she hopes to provide arole model for the youth and women of hercommunity to continue their education...
Division of the book into three firstperson narratives is not entirely successful, however. Although it allows the development of insights through comparison, it occasionally makes the book simply boring. The extensive reflections of Josh, who is a pretty colorless character despite his importance, are liable to make the reader impatient. And the retelling of certain incidents from different points of view, while sometimes highly effective, is also frequently exasperating. Here, in his fidelity to a pure understanding of his subjects, Sourian carries writing about what he knows to the brink of tedium...
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