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...issue of slave reparations got quite a few of you mad. Among the rejoinders we can print is one from a Las Vegas reader who told us that "slavery was a grave crime, but people who aren't responsible for what happened owe nothing to people it didn't happen to. It's a fact, pure and simple, that no living African American has ever been the slave of a living white American!" "Even Southerners whose families owned slaves through the Civil War owe nobody a cent," insisted a man from Atlanta. "It's not their fault their ancestors were...
...reinforces the emphasis the stately senator placed on duty throughout his life. It’s also a narrative that expertly explores the political landscape of the times. Despite his own leftist views, Perlstein carefully manages to leave his personal political biases out of the story, giving the reader an enjoyable rundown of Kennedy’s “Irish Mafia,” old-style Southern Democrats, Eisenhower’s essential acceptance of FDR’s New Deal and the growth of a young conservatives’ movement alongside the emergence of Students for a Democratic...
Perlstein’s attention to detail is part of that resurrection. Amusing anecdotes appear often throughout the book, helping along a text which, while well-written, could have been significantly shorter and just as effective. If a politician was militant and conservative in the postwar era, the reader quickly learns, then he was automatically labeled another “Hitler.” While driving to work, Charlton Heston suddenly converts to Goldwaterism. Writes Perlstein, “Looking up at an ‘In Your Heart, You Know He’s Right’ billboard...
...went on and on about how much everybody loves Chris Pierce ’02. Well, not everybody loves Johnnie Lee. That’s understandable. The boy is, after all, one of Harvard’s most talented musicians, In the (K)now’s most loyal reader, and, as In the (K)now It Girl Alejandra Casillas ’01 eloquently puts it, “hotter than Texas in August.” Who wouldn’t be jealous of Johnnie...
...sheltering them in his own township world. Gordimer is a fine writer, but I'm afraid the committee's description of the book as an "anachronism" is on the mark. July amazes the complacent, well-to-do white family - and by implication the complacent well-to-do white reader - with his kindness, resourcefulness and wisdom. In other words, he's the classic "noble savage" of 19th- and early-20th-century literature. He may not be educated or know what a bell curve is, but his heart's in the right place. It is, in many ways, a moving book...