Street Without Joy by Bernard B. FallMy rating: 5 of 5 stars Excellent. Superb! Everything I had heard about it. If you're a student of, or even just interested in, the French debacle in trying to recolonize Indochina, as well as subsequently the failure of the US, particularly in my opinion, by apparently never conducting …
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Throbbing Gristle's Twenty Jazz Funk Greats by Drew DanielMy rating: 5 of 5 stars A serious work about a serious work. Er, the book was impressively done on this still-controversial TG experiment that, like the band that influenced so many that came after. Many attribute the founding of the industrial rock movement to Throbbing Gristle …
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The Young Lords: A Radical History by Johanna Fernandez My rating: 5 of 5 stars This was my second or third time to read this book and it remains as stunning as ever. Between the Young Lords and FALN, as well as many dozens of other groups, most continental Americans would be shocked to know …
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This book is an excellent collection of essays on four important twentieth-century poets and writers stemming from the longtime relationships AD Winans enjoyed with them. The writers are Alvah Bessie, Bob Kaufman, Jack Micheline and Charles Bukowski.It's a must-read for anyone interested in Bukowski and the Beats, the Hollywood 10 and more.
It's always been stunning to me how much American history is left OUT of our history books, though I'm not so naïve as to wonder at the reasons -- there are many and most are predictable. But when I've asked people if they knew how Hawaii became a state or why Puerto Rico is not....
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