Word: rereadable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Americans sometimes rewrite their history, they seldom reread it. Rubenstein's book offers an excellent opportunity to do just that. He is invigorating and honest in his ironies; for him, the K.K.K. and CORE share the same sort of motivation. He proceeds through the American Revolution, the Indian revolts, the Civil War, various agrarian rebellions and labor-management wars, before confronting his main topic: race riots, early and late. Rubenstein demonstrates that in each case the oppressed group's lust for independence-through integration or separatism-is so powerful, indeed biological, an urge that it will...