NY Review of Books, OCTOBER 22, 2020 ISSUE Speak, Memory? by Yuri Slezkine Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning by Alex Halberstadt

NY Review of Books, OCTOBER 22, 2020 ISSUE A Disaster 100 Years in the Making by Eric Klinenberg Katrina: A History, 1915–2015 by Andy Horowitz Harvard University Press, 281 pp., $35.00 “I

The special chemistry of il manifesto --its founders united but different is mainly due to Rossana Rossanda, who passed away on Sept. 20 at age 96. Her point of view placed Italianevents within the

I think the most sympathetic portrayal was in _The Skin Game_, a rather clever piece in which James Garner did a reprise of his Bret Maverick TV character partnered with Louis Gossett Jr. Garner

BERLIN — They called him the “Führer of Berlin.” Ingo Hasselbach had been a clandestine neo-Nazi in communist East Berlin, but the fall of the Berlin Wall brought him out of the shadows. He

Unlike most people who were in solidarity with the Syrian revolution, Grayzone continues to act as if it were August 2013 and the only obstacle to Obama launching an invasion of

The other Hollywood film about John Brown is "Seven Angry Men" (1955) with Raymond Massey playing Brown again. This movie covers Brown's career in Kansas through Harper's Ferry and is much better than

The more militant you were, the madder you were considered. Rediker is to be hailed for rescuing Lay from obscurity. This was a freedom-fighter who lived a life that was

I think the strategic criticisms by other militant abolitionistsmade of John Brown's plan to raid the U.S. Arsenal at Harpers Ferry was well informed and Brown would have been well-advised to heed

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I was struck to learn that racists attacking Chinese people in Vancouver were singing John Brown’ Body during their attack. I don’t blame John Brown for this. I regard him as a hero. ken

This trailer convinced me to avoid it like the plague. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-Tm63y-S4s

As an historian of race and racism in this country, I was appalled and infuriated by THE GOOD LORD BIRD. Not only is the humor disturbing (and I am capable of laughing at some situations in life),

Yes, my mistake. But I still have big problems with: "Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, when the region is a battleground between anti-

Louis, that blurb you quoted sounds like a reference to DEACON KING KONG, McBride's most recent novel -- WHICH IS FABULOUS ....

What the fuck? A TV series about John Brown based on a novel described in the link above as: "In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles

Was abolitionist John Brown a psychopath, a sinner or a saint? The answer depends on whom you ask, and when. The long-awaited premiere of Showtime’s “The Good Lord Bird,” based on James

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Could be, Vladimiro. Of course i don't KNOW. Maybe Ronald Suny has the sources and resources to eventually be able to definitely answer. There might be useful evidence in other Stalin