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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hoffert, Barbara

Titel

Prepub Alert

Ist Teil von

• Library Journal, 2017, Vol.142 (15), p.77

Ort / Verlag

New York: MSI Information Services

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

EBSCOhost Business Source Ultimate

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• HISTORY/RELIGION Review by Barbara Hoffert Based on a University Honors-winning proposal Wills developed at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, this book chronicles the first African American millionaires, from Mary Ellen Pleasant, whose Gold Rush wealth helped abolitionist John Brown, to a Mississippi school teacher who developed an area in Tulsa called "the Black Wall Street." An immigrant friend's disappearance after returning to Mexico to visit family prompted him to look at immigration on both sides of the border. Since he claims Fulbright, Whiting, and Pushcart honors, Cantú can tell us well. MEMOIR/POLITICAL SCIENCE Review by Barbara Hoffert Tiger mother Chua, a Yale Law School professor specializing in ethnic conflict and globalization, argues that humans are instinctively tribal and that overlooking such group identification in favor of ideological rhetoric has led to numerous U.S. foreign policy disasters (think Sunnis and Shias in the Middle East and the hated Chinese-minority capitalists in Vietnam). LITERARY ESSAYS Review by Barbara Hoffert Addressing our current political climate, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award winner Robinson, not unexpectedly, does so by considering how writers such as Emerson and Tocqueville have shaped our political thought, encouraging us to continue their tradition and play a role in "a great theater of heroic generosity, which, despite all, is sometimes palpable still."