John Dos Passos

Occup(ied) America: A Literary History

Joe Woodward | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: History, Occupy Wall Street Movement, 1930s, John Dos Passos, Literary History, Biography, Great Depression, Occupy Wall Street, Books News
Joe Woodward

As I've watched and listened to the nascent movement "Occupy Wall Street," I've been driven to reread a favorite book of mine about America -- The American 1930s: A Literary History.

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An Audio Book Review: Forget Butch and Sundance, Etta's the Real Star Here

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kid Curry, The Sundance Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Trotsky, Etta Place, The Wild Bunch, Eleanor Roosevelt, Paul Newman, Gerald Koplan, Annie Oakley, The Hole in the Wall Gang, Buffalo Bill Cody, John Dos Passos, Blackstone Audio, Butch Cassidy, Kirsten Potter, E.L. Doctorow, The Pinkerton Detective Agency, The Harvey Girls, Katherine Ross, Ann Hathaway, The Black Hand, A Novel, Robert Redford, Etta, Media News
Tom Alderman

In this imaginative and fictional biography, Etta Place can shoot a gun as well as Annie Oakley, ride a horse like Buffalo Bill and rob banks with the skill of an experienced outlaw.

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Obama and "The Chicago Way"

Martin Nolan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Wright, Lynn Sweet Chicago Sun-Times, Ben Hecht Charles MacArthur, Mies Van Der Rohe, Boston, Richard J. Daley, Harvard FacultyClub, The Front Page, Sean Connery, Warren G. Harding, Rosalind Russell, Cary Grant, Nelson Algren, Steve Neal, Theodore Roosevelt, James T. Farrell, Happy Days Are Here Again, Sy Hersh, Richard M. Daley, Willa Cather, Grover Cleveland, Stud Terkel, Al Capone, Saul Bellow, Kurt Vonnegut, H.H. Richardson, John Kass, Finley Peter Dunne, Franklin Roosevelt, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Barack Obama, Howard Hawks, Blackstone Hotel, Dwight Eisenhower, David Thomson, Rahm Emanuel, Mike Royko, Chicago Tribune, Carl Sandburg, Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, Abraham Lincoln, 1968 Demorcatic National Convention, Chicago News
Martin Nolan

How does Barack Obama fit into political Chicago? I found out at another convention, Boston's in 2004.

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Banana Republic

Lapham's Quarterly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Philander Knox, Nicaraguan Banana Plantations, Bananas, Nicaragua, Latin America, John Dos Passos, State Department, Foreign Policy, Politics News
Lapham's Quarterly

No Latin American nation has dangled at the end of the U.S. State Department's marionette strings more wretchedly than Nicaragua, leading them to harbor a particularly personal distrust of the Yankee colossus.

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