Gulf Coast Bob

Vital History Little Taught

Revisado: 11-09-19

Toussaint L'Ouverture was a great military leader, the Bonaparte of the West Indies. I bought a hard copy of the book so as to be able to compare the narrative to maps and to be able to check names of the figures where the well-pronounced French names don't stick clearly in the memory of a native Anglophone.

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I Laughed, I Cried, I Kvelled

Revisado: 06-14-19

Here is a new world, a world that I had never known about before I had heard of this project. Here is Yiddish radio in America. Here is Eastern European Jewish New York. Here are stations whose power was so low that they could not be heard outside of the neighborhood. Here is a popular song that became a worldwide hit for many performers that the composer sold for $30. Here are commercials and jingles caught in the consciousness of tens of thousands of people. Here is the Shoah. Here is rabbinic court radio. Here is gut-wrenching drama. Here is avant-garde poetry and socialism, wealth and poverty. Here is a new thing under the sun, yet familiar as the ancient scriptures of most American faiths. Most highly recommended.

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Hard to Speak, An Infuriating & Sad Duty to Hear

Revisado: 05-29-19

Lengthy . Listening increases impact. Campaign uncaring about substantive foreign influence. Legal term reading botched.

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