- Slow Train to Freedom
- In Slavery by Another Name, Douglas Blackmon argues, passionately and convincingly, that blacks in the former Confederacy saw their freedom so constrained in the decades after the Civil War that they were not free in any meaningful way.
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- Hell No, They Won't Go
- Reviewing We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now, Josh Rosenblatt finds that democracy and war make terrible bedfellows.
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- Arab Bashing on the Big Screen
- Contributing writer Steven G. Kellman reviews Guilty: Hollywood’s Verdict on Arabs after 9/11, by Jack G. Shaheen, a crusader against negative portrayals of Arabs in the media.
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- Lifestyles of the Rich and Infamous
- Civil rights attorney Dave Richards reviews Bryan Burrough’s The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes, which follows Texas oil barons from their maverick origins to their latter-day roles as right-wing sugar daddies.
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- Big Bad D
- Freelance writer and Dallas resident Thomas Korosec reviews Harvey J. Graff’s The Dallas Myth: The Making and Unmaking of an American City. Graff dispels the myth, told by generations of city leaders, that Dallas arose out of nothing with no history, and analyzes the way the myth still plays a role -- even in the heterogeneous culture of Dallas today.
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