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...greatest fault of the book stems not from its focus, which adds a fascinating dimension to this period of American history, but the tone with which Schama presents his discoveries. The glee with which he points out the hypocrisy of slave-owning “Sons of Liberty” seems a tad excessive; none of this is particularly new to the American historical narrative...
...DIED. Friedrich Karl Flick, 79, billionaire German industrialist; in Carinthia, Austria. Flick-whose father was jailed by the Allied War Crimes Tribunal at Nuremberg for using slave labor in munitions and other factories-became famous for an early-1980s scandal over huge donations made to German political parties by managers at the family's conglomerate. The Flick Affair, as it became known, forever linked his name with the issue of shady influences in politics...
billionaire German industrialist; in Carinthia, Austria. Flick--whose father was jailed by the Allied War Crimes Tribunal at Nuremberg for using slave labor in munitions and other factories--became famous for an early-1980s scandal over huge donations made to German political parties by managers at the family's conglomerate. The Flick Affair, as it became known, forever linked his name with the issue of shady influences in politics...
...were jolted out of our intellectual reveries by the sudden utterance of the word “nigger.” This word came tripping not off of the tongue of our professor, but from a white classmate, in the midst of a comment on a joke that a slave (the “nigger” in question) told to his master. This came as such a shock to everyone not simply because of the obvious conflict between the race of the commenter and the word itself, but because up until that point, no one—neither...
...opinion column, “Diversity and Denial,” was misleading in its statement that a white student was the first person in an undergraduate course on African American humor to use the epithet “nigger” in reference to a slave. While the student was in fact the first person to directly refer to the slave as a “nigger,” the course professor had told a joke in which the slave referred to himself in that manner...