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Itinerary: An Intellectual Journey
Octavio Paz
Harcourt, 2000
PAZitively brilliant...
+ "Words Became My Dwelling Place, the Air My Tomb"
+ an intellectual journey of the mind
The agile synthesizing mind at the height of its powers: Skip the 'Labyrinth' and go straight to this.
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Amy Tan: Author of the Joy Luck Club (People to Know)
Barbara Kramer
Enslow Publishers, 1996
reader's opinion
+ The Joy Luck Club's rave.
I loved this book, i have read it about four times. I think that Amy Tan does a very good job of portraying the Asian American families in the United States. I related to this book a lot, those of you that have similar problems should read this book. Of course everyone has heard about the ...
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Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon
Carl Rollyson, Lisa Paddock
W. W. Norton & Company, 2000
A Biography as Provocative as Its Subject
+ We can't comment on the accuracy of a biography with any
+ A Biography as Provocative as Its Subject
This is a book equal to its subject. Few intellectuals are as interesting as Susan Sontag, and the authors are fair and balanced in their presentation of the facts and controversies that make up the life of Sontag. The authors point to many facts that can only engender admiration of Sontag. ...
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Interviews with Betty Friedan (Conversations With Public Intellectuals)
University Press of Mississippi, 2002
Writer, teacher, and public intellectual, Betty Friedan has been in the spotlight almost continuously since the publication of The Feminine Mystique , her landmark book, in 1963. Transforming Friedan into the mother of modern feminism, that book challenged the prevailing gender ideology in the country and ultimately led to one of the most profound movements for social change in American ...
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Dialogues
Jerry Brown
Berkeley Hills Books, 1998
Jerry Brown - Moral & Spiritual Politician
+ A Must Read
+ An excellent summary of Jerry Brown's talk show content
+ Contains ideas Important to our future! Read it.
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Beverly Cleary (Who Wrote That?)
Jennifer Peltak
Chelsea House Publications, 2005
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Terry McMillan: The Unauthorized Biography
Diane Patrick
St. Martin's Press, 1999
Terry's life thru her novels !
+ She got her groove on then some
The Unauthorized Biography was an interesting and entertaining book. I did however feel, it left out a lot to be said for Tery's life ! The story Dianne Patrick told was Terry's life thru her novels ! While she did get some co- operation from others and what other people have said in the ...
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Lying Down With The Lions
Ronald V. Dellums
Beacon Press, 2000
A remarkable success story on how to protest with dignity
+ Fascinating story of a progressive succeeding in Washington
Dellum is a humanist and intellectual, who has lived through extremely unjust treatment while leading African Americans to political equality. All intellectuals, and every conscientous person in general, have a lot to learn from his dignified and persistent struggle, through his witty and ...
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Steambath (Broadway Theatre Archive)
Art Metrano, José Pérez (II)
Kultur Video, 2002
Everyone Should Try to Find and Watch This Adaptation
+ Marvelous!
+ Steambath - A Broadway Show
+ This takes me back
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Dictee
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
University of California Press, 2001
Reflection of woman
+ an amazing work
+ Great book...
This book is confusing, frustrating, consuming and utterly breathtaking. It is a shattered mirror w/ pieces of riddles, poetry, cold photos of mothers and unsung heroines & nonsense; a true reflection of a woman. And like a woman, it takes work to truly understand its essence. Discovering what is ...
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Hero of Flight 93: Mark Bingham (An Advocate Books Life Story)
Jon Barrett
Advocate Books, 2002
My Friend, My Hero
+ Poignant Look At An Ordinary American Who Became A Hero
+ America's New Hero
+ Moving for what it is, not how it's written
+ To Do What I Can With My Time on Earth
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Left Illusions: An Intellectual Odyssey
David Horowitz
Spence Publishing Company, 2003
Inspiring snapshots of a journey in the right direction
+ The Truth - At Last
+ Look in the Mirror
+ David Horowitz's Greatest Hits.
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Liberalism is a Mental Disorder: Savage Solutions
Michael Savage
Thomas Nelson, 2005
A Favorite of Church Shooters Everywhere
+ Great Book
+ How many people here read the book?
This book was apparently a favorite of Jim David Adkisson, who recently killed two people in a Unitarian Church here in Knoxville, Tennessee. Because people who disagree with your political views really are sick, aren't they?
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Brown: The Last Discovery of America
Richard Rodriguez
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2003
Rodriguez - Brown is All Cultures
+ Very important for learning distinctions and non-distinctions
+ Love this book! The "inconvenient" truth revealed-
Rodriguez has written an ambitious book: who else would be willing to take on the idea of "brown" and all it involves, from the many perspectives from which this writer sees? I teach a university course on Biography and Memoir and his is one of my favorite books to include. I love his attention to ...
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Chief Justice: A Biography of Earl Warren
Ed Cray
Simon & Schuster, 1997
Great Man, Great Book
+ Pretty good
+ The best biography of the most controversial chief justice
+ Compact book on a voluminous subject
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