Being a blog by Leslie Regan Shade
Michelle Goldberg’s Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, 2006. NY: Norton.
Journalist Goldberg crossed the U.S. to examine how entrenched Christian fundamentalism has become in local, municipal, state and federal bureaucracies
Framing the Black Panthers, by Jane Rhodes. The New Press, 2007.
A fascinating look both at how the Panthers strategically used the mass media while creating their own iconography and newspaper, and how the U.S. (and international) media portrayed the Panthers during the late 60s-70s.
American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville, by Bernard-Henri Levy. So The Atlantic Magazine asks BHL to tour the US just like the other frenchman did and record his observations about prisons, politics, and obesity. Occasionally very funny, sometimes dull, I kept thinking his needs a screenplay with a resurrected Jean-Paul Belmondo in a musical number.
Little Children by Tom Perrotta. Lusting for suburbia’s sexual intrigue amidst wading pools, swing-sets, the neighborhood perv and online nasties?