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Fast paced fiasco

Revisado: 09-30-24

Well done, short vivid scenes make it fast paced with very dark themes and characters.
Modified voices and sound effects add to the narrative but which voice gets the biggest share of the royalties?

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path to a new party

Revisado: 05-12-24

so much going on,description of Grattin fight might be the most interesting. Fremont , Drett Scott, Mormans, Sioux, Buchanan, Fillmore, Catholics, and so much more

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Well written & researched for a Harvard professor

Revisado: 04-02-24

Interesting and informative, Havard biases for inflated language and digs at Yale and the no-Ivy Leaguers rarely show up. Performed very well but we prounce things differently in Central Illinois.

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a great variety of perspectives and people

Revisado: 01-14-24

The differing perspectives from friends and foes and those who had been both, famous or not, was entertaining and enlightening.

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valiant effort

Revisado: 08-30-23

Lots of interesting information, although it meanders at times into unrelated topics.
Great for better understanding the period

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The Long Missing Mississippi history

Revisado: 02-28-23

The use of contemporary sources and language help make the unimaginable almost understandable.
The Mississippi and Massachusetts accent also helped.

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Repeditive and Derivative

Revisado: 05-06-20

Since the author gives presentations of race, hearing her talk about her insight and experience on this important topic seamed like it would add to her book but having heard her book, I see why they choose a very calm, professional reader.

The sample covers the the tone and depth of the book. She is a sociologist and knows all she need to about her audience whom she considers ignorant, uneducated, racist white supremacists members of the white collective or Klan. She's heard it all before so the only feedback she wants is thank you, She make an example of one participant who gives the wrong feedback. In another example she gives, another person is driven out of the room and coworkers think she may be having a heart attack. The writer is upset that this and the possible death will draw attention from what she is saying, Near the end she explains that she is un-white and sees nothing positive in white people.

Her actual material on racism is mostly other peoples work and opinion. The material seems to be used to show she went to colege, reads the right books and to expand this to book length rather that open people to talk about race.

Some people in her line of work, particularly those with her apparent attitude, may like and relate to this book and her experiences and frustrations in talking about race. Others,however, like her participant from Canada, may find this makes talking about race less likely.

She did have a piece of good advise that bares repeating. We should seek more to understand than to be understood and to console than be consoled. I had already gotten that advise from St Francis but its still good advise.

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