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-- Birmingham Post-Herald
The Last Innocent White Man in America
And Other Writings
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"Essays with everything that counts: wisdom, passion, and most of all, the generosity of great criticism" (San Francisvo Chronicle), on everything from Nixon's secret love affair with Elvis to the Reagan gerontocracy's "theology of greed" to assessments of writers as diverse as Toni Morrison and Gunter Grass.
An engaging collection of civilized essays about cultural uplift and decline.
-- The Progressive
Far more than simple political commentary, The Last Innocent White Man in America is a passionate marriage of politics and literature that transcends the daily headlines to get at how we imagine ourselves in history. John Leonard is an unrepentant liberal, dissident, scourge, and media critic par excellence. Whether he's writing about bankers or AIDS, Congress or television, Salman Rushdie or Ed Koch, Leonard will make you stop, think, and laugh.
John Leonard's most recent book is Smoke and Mirrors: Violence, Television, and Other American Cultures (The New Press). He has written for several publications and has been a staff critic for the New York Times, Ms., Life, and Newsweek, and editor of the New York Times Book Review. Currently, he is literary coeditor of The Nation and appears weekly on CBS Sunday Morning. He lives in New York City.
Cultural Studies
Fall 1996
paperback
5 1/2 x 8 1/4, 320 pages
978-1-56584-348-6
Fall 1996
paperback
5 1/2 x 8 1/4, 320 pages
978-1-56584-348-6
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