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A probing look at one of the most incendiary subjects of our time―the relationship between the United States and Israel

There has been more than half a century of raging conflict between Jews and Arabs―a violent, costly struggle that has had catastrophic repercussions in a critical region of the world. In Genesis, John B. Judis argues that, while Israelis and Palestinians must shoulder much of the blame, the United States has been the principal power outside the region since the end of World War II and as such must account for its repeated failed diplomacy efforts to resolve this enduring strife.

The fatal flaw in American policy, Judis shows, can be traced back to the Truman years. What happened between 1945 and 1949 sealed the fate of the Middle East for the remainder of the century. As a result, understanding that period holds the key to explaining almost everything that follows―right down to George W. Bush's unsuccessful and ill-conceived effort to win peace through holding elections among the Palestinians, and Barack Obama's failed attempt to bring both parties to the negotiating table. A provocative narrative history animated by a strong analytical and moral perspective, and peopled by colorful and outsized personalities and politics, Genesis offers a fresh look at these critical postwar years, arguing that if we can understand how this stalemate originated, we will be better positioned to help end it.

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Review

“A morally serious and thoughtful work.” ―Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

“[Judis] is a careful historian.” ―Joseph Dorman, The New York Times Book Review

“Judis digs deeply into history, politics and diplomacy to explain the backstory of today's headlines . . . [A] provocative book.” ―Jonathan Kirsch, Jewish Journal

“A standout book that will both teach and productively provoke . . . [An] excellent book.” ―Jesse Singal, The Boston Globe

“John Judis has long been one of America's best political historians. Now he's proved himself one of the best historians of American foreign policy towards Israel. You don't have to agree with all of John's conclusions to be powerfully impressed by the extent of his research, the quality of his insight, and his deep empathy for both Jews and Palestinians in the tortured land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. One of the best books about the U.S.-Israel relationship I have ever read.” ―Peter Beinart, author of The Crisis of Zionism

“John Judis fairly and carefully explores Harry Truman's conflicted attitudes toward the establishment of the state of Israel--and he does far more. A conscientious attempt to deal with the ethical paradoxes involved in the establishment of the state of Israel, this book makes us aware of the implacable moral ambiguities with which we all must live as we make choices in a deeply flawed world.” ―Alonzo L. Hamby, Distinguished Professor of History, Ohio University; author of Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman

“This is the best kind of history--taking a historical episode we think we know about (Truman recognizing the new state of Israel) and probing what really happened and what it meant for the future. John Judis is one of America's best journalists. In Genesis he brings together both lucid writing and passionate insight in a way that sheds light on current American policy in the Middle East.” ―James Mann, author of Rise of the Vulcans and The Obamians

“Genesis, John Judis's history of the Truman administration's relationship to Israel and its neighbors, is a smart, unsentimental, and independent-minded rendering of a complicated tale. His arguments and evidence challenge the comforting myths that sustain all sides of this tragic conflict and, in doing so, have the potential to point all its actors in a more hopeful direction in the future.” ―Eric Alterman, author of The Cause: The Fight for American Liberalism from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama

About the Author
John B. Judis is a senior editor at The New Republic and has also written for GQ, Foreign Affairs, Mother Jones, The New York Times Magazine, and The Washington Post. He is the author of The Folly of Empire and The Emerging Democratic Majority, among other books.

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192 of 235 people found the following review helpful.
And once again, the smears begin...
By Pamela Olson
The book is barely out, and already the hasbara (propaganda) brigades are out, creating one- and two-star reviews based on ideology, not on what's actually in the book. (I'd bet good money most of them haven't even cracked it open.) Just unsubstantiated insults and accusations. It's seen on virtually every book that challenges elements of the Zionist narrative, and it's quite tiresome.

Here's some unsolicited advice to low-star reviewers who haven't read it yet: Try actually reading the book. You don't have to agree with everything, but try to keep an open enough mind to just consider that some of what you've been led to believe may have a few holes in it.

144 of 179 people found the following review helpful.
Saving the Soul of Israel
By Walter Donway
I just spent the weekend holding my Kindle Paperwhite and reading this entire 400-plus page book. What could possibly make a book about the history of Zionism, its entanglements in U.S. politics, and the agonized emergence of the State of Israel a page turner? Well, it is an experience almost like that of a person raised in a dogmatically religious household, hearing for years nothing but repetitions of the Bible, knowing no one except bible-school classmates, who suddenly picks up a careful scientific, reasoned,fact-based discussion of religion and reality. And sits muttering to himself: No one ever told me this! Why didn't anyone tell me this? How could I swallow all of that? Even knowing that when he begins to try to discuss his new ideas, his new insights, his mother will start crying--or cursing--and his dad may punch him in the mouth and kick him out of the house.

I am not and never was even FAINTLY as naive as the young man of my parable. I studied history, philosophy, and literature at Brown University. Was a newspaper reporter. Discovered the great novelist and philosopher, Ayn Rand, when I was 17, and dedicated myself to reason, independent thinking, and openness to the facts. But...very early I "bought" what I call the "Israel narrative" of a new nation built, founded, and won against all odds by a mercilessly persecuted people (true), a nation settled and built by men and women with a great vision of a new land where they could be free, secure, and reignite the fire of their religion (true), and who worked toward a society and a nation based on fairness and equality (alas, not true), and were open to peaceful, shared settlement of land occupied by another people (alas, not true), but had to fight off utterly unprovoked attacks (not true), held out offers of peace and justice that were spurned (not true), and were forced by the very struggle for survival to sweep away the occupants of the land (not true), forced to keep them out (not true), and, at last, to pen them indefinitely in walled, wired, military occupied enclaves (a big lie).

And this switch from true, to distressingly less than true, to blatantly untrue, to outrageously false is John Judis's account of how a movement that began infused with idealism, goodwill, and hope deteriorated into a colonialist movement that used and manipulated British imperialism, that came to believe the end of creating a Jewish state justified all means, and that succeeded brilliantly, beyond all expectations, and so put behind it, seemingly forever, considerations of justice and staked its future on a "narrative"--not a record.

And perhaps this book, to me, was a page turner because of the surprising revelation--inescapable as the dispassionate, documented, incisive presentation of the many-side drama unfolds--that my own country became the greatest obstacle to justice and peace between Israel and its Palestinian victims. And that, today, a purely American Zionism so dominates our politics that the prospects are dim that Israel ever may turn its attention from political and economy success, and its mesmerizing narrative of Biblical and historical rationalizations, to what is happening to its soul. It is disturbing, to say the least, to watch unfolding the story of how so many American Jewish citizens, including so many of the most successful, became accustomed, then comfortable, then almost addicted to viewing the good of Israel as their dominating concern. And, as an afterthought, added the coda that, of course, the good of Israel--that is, the will of its present government--is identical with the good of America.

And if American governments--indeed, every Representative, Senator, President, and other voice in government--cannot see that complete equality of interests, then there is no alternative but to drive them from public life.

And yet, if my account makes Mr. Judis's book sound harsh, condemnatory, and extreme that is only because I summarize my own conclusions and reactions--the resentment of one who feels he has been duped by the Israel narrative. The account itself is a resolutely factual, historical account-- vivid, evocative, and dramatic only when the story is so--that builds over many pages as the reader is invited to question the evidence--but mostly the lack of evidence--for his devotion to the Israel narrative.

I will add only that if, having read this book, you become excited about new ideas, new insights, in what really is occurring in Israel and the Middle East, you will do well to discuss them only in the most guarded, circumspect way. And if you do, expect virtually instant alarm--let's say, shock--and then a defensiveness that quickly becomes self-righteous refusal even to entertain such a discussion. It will not take many exchanges before the charge of antisemitism is raised. It is not your ideas, but your motives, that will be attacked. It is not your logic, but your honestly that will be called into doubt. And if you persist you may find yourself literally punished in ways beyond even discourse.

And you may find yourself in good company, with U.S Presidents from Harry Truman through Barrack Obama, when you begin to "take it all back," either directly or in so many words, and either suppress your views on Israel and turn to matters more promising, or pay lip service to Israel narrative because the cost of questioning is simply too high.

To see the world more clearly, for me, at least, is an end itself.

125 of 163 people found the following review helpful.
Zionists will denounce this truthful history because it shatters their media monopoly
By Michael Hoffman
Hysterics are resorting to the tiresome “anti-semitic” smear to demonize this book and intimidate potential readers. Author John B. Judis dares to demonstrate concern for facts that support the case of the dispossessed Palestinians, ergo he is “anti-semitic.” Is this the best his critics can do? In his book Genesis, Judis shows that Zionism was a colonial project and demonstrates the influence of the Israeli lobby in the United States. He offers prima facie evidence of how a U.S. President — Harry Truman — was relentlessly pressured into recognizing the theft of Palestinian land and the establishment of an Israeli Judaic nationalist state. In this regard, Judis indicts American liberals who were progressives in matters of civil rights and labor unions, yet callously indifferent to the fate of the Palestinians under Israeli subjugation. These liberals convinced Truman to bow to the Israeli demand for a supremacist, racial-chauvinist state in the Middle East. This book offers a fresh and long overdue perspective on hidden facts heretofore withheld from the American people.

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In the past fifty years, more than $1 trillion in development-related aid has been transferred from rich countries to Africa. Has this assistance improved the lives of Africans? No. In fact, across the continent, the recipients of this aid are not better off as a result of it, but worse—much worse.

In Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa today and unflinchingly confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: that billions of dollars in aid sent from wealthy countries to developing African nations has helped to reduce poverty and increase growth. In fact, poverty levels continue to escalate and growth rates have steadily declined—and millions continue to suffer. Provocatively drawing a sharp contrast between African countries that have rejected the aid route and prospered and others that have become aid-dependent and seen poverty increase, Moyo illuminates the way in which overreliance on aid has trapped developing nations in a vicious circle of aid dependency, corruption, market distortion, and further poverty, leaving them with nothing but the “need” for more aid. Debunking the current model of international aid promoted by both Hollywood celebrities and policy makers, Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world’s poorest countries that guarantees economic growth and a significant decline in poverty—without reliance on foreign aid or aid-related assistance.

Dead Aid is an unsettling yet optimistic work, a powerful challenge to the assumptions and arguments that support a profoundly misguided development policy in Africa. And it is a clarion call to a new, more hopeful vision of how to address the desperate poverty that plagues millions.

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From Publishers Weekly
In this important analysis of the past fifty years of international (largely American) aid to Africa, economist and former World Bank consultant Moyo, a native of Zambia, prescribes a tough dose of medicine: stopping the tide of money that, however well-intentioned, only promotes corruption in government and dependence in citizens. With a global perspective and on-the-ground details, Moyo reveals that aid is often diverted to the coffers of cruel despotisms, and occasionally conflicts outright with the interests of citizens-free mosquito nets, for instance, killing the market for the native who sells them. In its place, Moyo advocates a smarter, though admittedly more difficult, policy of investment that has already worked to grow the economies of poor countries like Argentina and Brazil. Moyo writes with a general audience in mind, and doesn't hesitate to slow down and explain the intricacies of, say, the bond market. This is a brief, accessible look at the goals and reasons behind anti-aid advocates, with a hopeful outlook and a respectful attitude for the well-being and good faith of all involved.
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Economist Moyo (former head, Economic Research and Strategy for Sub-Saharan Africa, Goldman Sachs) makes a startling assertion: charitable aid to African nations is not just ineffective—it is worse than no aid. Moyo, who was born and raised in Zambia, joins a small but growing number of observers (including microfinance expert Muhammad Yunnus) who argue that charity from Western nations cripples African governments by fostering dependency and corruption without requiring positive change. Deriding efforts to increase giving by foreign celebrities like U2 singer Bono as out of touch with the real needs of African countries, Moyo instead proposes solutions like new bond markets, microfinancing, and revised property laws. Moyo also singles out commercial investment from the Chinese (rather than general aid) and holds it up as an example for other nations to follow in the future. Whether one agrees or disagrees with Moyo's argument for such capitalist intervention in Africa, this straightforward and readable work should provide some food for thought.—April Younglove, Linfield Coll. Lib., Portland, OR
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The $1 trillion in U.S. aid granted to African nations since the 1940s has hurt rather than helped nations struggling with corruption, poverty, and disease, according to Moyo, an economist born in Zambia. She laments the fact that too many African nations, despite enormous natural resources, have become dependent on aid as the generally low-rate, long-term capital has become a “cultural commodity,” with worldwide appeals now made by top celebrities. Moyo begins with a history of U.S. aid, including its use in the cold war, and details frequent abuse as dictators have lined their pockets and aid agencies have actually hurt budding small businesses. Many African nations have shown declining economic growth as a result of dependence on aid. Moyo advocates the gradual reduction in aid over five to 10 years, and suggests that Africa follow the examples of Asia, accessing the international bond market and making large-scale investments in infrastructure, as well as pressing for free-trade policies on agricultural products. This is a passionate and controversial look at past and future aid to Africa. --Vanessa Bush

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110 of 120 people found the following review helpful.
Credible and Insightful!
By Loyd Eskildson
Over the past 60 years at least $1 trillion in aid was sent to Africa - yet, calls for even more grow steadily louder. Moyo - a native of Zambia, contends that evidence demonstrates that this aid has made the poor poorer. Real per-capita income today is lower than it was in the 1970s. In other words, aid is not part of the solution, it is part of the problem.

Even after aggressive debt-relief campaigns in the 1990s, African countries still pay close to $20 billion in debt repayments per year - at the expense of education and health care. Moyo also asserts that the roughly 500,000 individuals in the "aid business" have no motivation for that aid to succeed; meanwhile, well-meaning individuals such as Bono have choked off debate of its efficacy.

The author claims that the most obvious criticism of aid is that it enables rampant corruption and bloated bureaucracies. In 2002, the African Union, an organization of African nations, estimated that corruption was costing $150 billion/year. Transparency International, a corruption watchdog, states that Zaire's former president is reputed to have stolen at least $5 billion from the country. Across Africa, over 70% of government funding comes from foreign aid - enabling those governments to avoid accountability to local citizens since they pay so little.

In Cameroon, it takes a potential investor about 426 days to gain a business license, vs. 17 in South Korea. Under the auspices of the U.S. Food for Peace program, each year millions are used to buy American-grown food that is then shipped to Africa where it puts local farmers out of business.

Moyo's bottom-line is that other regions should stop the largess towards Africa, and Africa should focus on becoming more attractive to private investment. This includes ceasing to be the source of the world's greatest number of armed conflicts.

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful.
DEAD AID IS AFRICA'S ALBATROSS
By Vakunta
Dambisa Moyo's masterpiece is an economic blueprint intended to serve as a paradigm for weaning Africa off the debilitating aid-dependency syndrome that has kept the continent in perpetual economic stagnancy for decades. Using dependable statistics, Moyo argues that government-to-government or bilateral aid (which should be distinguished from charity-based aid) to Africa undermines the ability of Africans to conceptualize their own best economic and political policies. As she puts it: "The net result of aid-dependency is that instead of having a functioning Africa, managed by Africans, for Africans, what is left is one where outsiders attempt to map its destiny and call the shots."(66) Foreign aid does not only undermine economic growth, it keeps recipient countries in a state of endemic poverty. It is itself an underlying cause of social unrest and possibly even civil war.

Moyo notes that the "prospect of seizing power and gaining access to unlimited aid wealth is irresistible."(59) To buttress her argument, she refers to Grossman (1992) who contends that the underlying purpose of rebellion is the capture of the state for financial advantage, and that aid makes such conflict more likely. In the past fifty years, Moyo observes, over US$1trillion in development-related aid has been transferred from the rich countries of the West to Africa. Yet, aid has helped make the poor poorer; economic growth slower.

According to Moyo, the notion that foreign aid can alleviate systemic poverty, and has done so in Africa is tantamount to a myth. Millions in Africa, she notes, are poorer today on account of aid dependency. Indeed, aid has been and continues to be, an unmitigated political and economic and humanitarian disaster for Africa. Aid is not benign--it is malignant. In short, aid is not part of the solution; it is the problem. And here is how.

Aid breeds corruption in Africa. If the world has one picture of the African continent, it is one of corrupt statesmen. With very few exceptions, African leaders have crowned themselves in gold, seized land, handed over state businesses to relatives and friends, diverted billions of aid-money to foreign bank accounts, and generally treated their countries like giant personalized cash dispensers. According to Transparency International, Mobutu Sese Seko of erstwhile Zaire is estimated to have looted the State to the tune of US$5billion.

Roughly the same amount was stolen from Nigeria by President Sani Abacha and placed in Swiss private banks. The list of corrupt practices in Africa is endless. However, the point about corruption in Africa is not that it exists; the point is that foreign aid is one of its greatest aides. Aid creates a vicious cycle of dependency in Africa; a cycle that chokes off desperately needed investment, instills a culture of kleptomania, and facilitates rampant and systematic corruption, all with deleterious consequences for economic growth. It is this cycle, Moyo posits, that "perpetuates underdevelopment, and guarantees economic failure in the poorest aid-dependent countries" (49).

Aid creates a fertile ground for rent-seeking, that is, the use of governmental authority to take and make money without trade or production of wealth. Because foreign aid is fungible--easily stolen, redirected and extracted-- it facilitates corruption. At a very basic level, an example of this is where a government official with access to aid money set aside for public welfare takes the money for his own personal use. Examples are legion in Africa. Foreign aid programs, which tend to lack accountability, and check and balances, act as substitutes for tax revenues.

The tax receipts that aid releases are then diverted to unproductive and often wasteful purposes rather than the productive public expenditure (education, health infrastructure, etc) for which they were ostensibly intended. Moyo points out that in "Uganda, for example, aid-fueled corruption in the 1990s was thought to be so rampant that only 20 cents of every US$1 of government spending on education reached the targeted local primary school."(53)

Strangely enough, Larry Diamond (2004) observes, Western aid agencies, notably the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, continue to give aid to African states, with notorious authoritarian and corrupt governments. His list includes Cameroon, Egypt, Zimbabwe, Gabon, Angola, Eritrea, Guinea and Mauritania. Africa is the region that receives the largest amount of foreign aid, receiving more per capita in official development assistance than any other region of the world.

Yet her social infrastructure is in a state of utter decrepitude! Moyo notes that any large influx of money into an economy, however robust, has the potential to create serious problems. With the relentless flow of unmitigated, substantial aid money to Africa, these problems are magnified, especially in economies that are, by their very nature, poorly managed, weak and susceptible to outside influence, over which domestic policymakers have little or no control.

Moyo contends that increases in foreign aid are correlated with declining domestic savings rates. As she puts it, "As foreign aid comes in, domestic savings decline; that is, investment falls."(61) She further observes that with all the tempting aid monies on offer, which are notoriously fungible, the relatively few people who have access to it, spend it on consumer goods instead of saving the cash. As savings decline, local banks have less money to lend for domestic investment.

Worse still, foreign aid has an equally damaging crowding-out effect: although aid is meant to encourage private investment by providing loan guarantees, subsidizing investment risks and supporting co-financing arrangements with private investors, in practice it discourages the inflow of such high-quality foreign monies. Moyo points out that empirical research has shown that higher aid-induced consumption leads to an environment where much more money is chasing fewer goods."(61) This almost invariably leads to price rises--inflation.

Over and above, aid chokes off the export sector. This phenomenon is known as the Dutch disease, as its effects were first observed when natural gas revenues flooded the Netherlands in the 1960s, devastating the Dutch export sector and increasing unemployment. Moyo argues that aid inflows have adverse effects on overall competitiveness, export sector (usually in the form of decline in the share of those in the manufacturing sector and ultimately growth).

In the oddest turn of events, the fact that aid reduces competitiveness, and thus the trading sector's ability to generate foreign-exchange earnings, makes countries even more dependent on aid, leaving them exposed to all the negative consequences of aid-dependency. In countries with weak financial systems, additional foreign resources do not translate into growth of stronger financially dependent industries.

So if foreign aid harbors such adverse effects for African economies why are donors bent on doling it out? And why aren't recipients sagacious enough to put an end to the lethal cycle of aid? Moyo's Dead Aid model provides solid answers to these intriguing questions. She notes that "Africa is addicted to aid. For the past sixty years, she says, Africa has been fed aid. Like any addict, Africa needs and depends on its regular fix, finding it hard, if not impossible to contemplate existence in an aid-less world."(75) Her book provides an antidote, a road map for riding Africa of aid dependency.

Arguing that the aid program in Africa has not worked precisely because it was never conceived with the intention of promoting the economic development of Africa, she proposes alternatives to foreign aid. She notes that like the challenges faced by someone addicted to drugs, the withdrawal is bound to be painful. Nonetheless, if implemented in the most efficient way, the solutions offered in Dead Aid will help to dramatically reduce Africa's reliance on aid money.

Moyo cites Botswana as an example of an economic success story in Africa. Botswana began with a high ratio of aid to GDP but used the aid wisely to provide important public goods that helped support good policies and sound governance and laid the foundation for robust economic growth for the country.

She says this stratagem can be replicated all over Africa. Her alternatives to aid, predicated on transparency and accountability, would provide the life-blood through which Africa's social capital and economies will grow. Her Dead Aid strategy leaves room for modest amounts of aid to be part of Africa's development financing strategy. Systematic aid will be a component of her Dead Aid Model, but only insofar as its presence decreases as other financing alternatives take hold. The ultimate goal, as far as Moyo is concerned, is an aid-free Africa.

In a nutshell, Dead Aid proposes radical solutions to the pressing economic problems of our time. It offers a new model for financing development in Africa's poorest countries, one that offers economic growth, promises to significantly reduce endemic poverty, and most importantly, does not rely on aid. Though Moyo is not the first economic pundit to take Western aid donors to task, never has the case against aid been made with such rigor and conviction. She does not pull her punches.

"In a perfect world," she writes, "what poor countries at the lowest rungs of economic development need is not a multi-party democracy, but in fact a decisive benevolent dictator to push through the reforms required to get the economy moving."(xi) Her most radical proposal comes in the form of a rhetorical question: "What if," she asks, "one by one, African countries each received a phone call...telling them that in exactly five years the aid taps would be shut off permanently?"(xi)

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Dead Aid insightful and accurate
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Samosa Moyo hits the nail on the head. He points out the failures and limitations of aid and also points out the successes. The lessons learned can be applied on many levels, even on a personal one, which I found inspiring.

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A gifted writer's inquiry into one of the most profound yet least discussed issues of contemporary American life: the individual's search for faith. It tells of Hampl's quest to escape the indelible brand of a Catholic upbringing, following her to the "old world" of Catholocism in Spain and France, where she meets other pilgrims, back home again, and finally to a monastery in northern California, where she is able to settle into the real goal of her search: the silence of prayer.

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• Published on: 1992-08-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.25" h x 6.25" w x 1.00" l,
• Binding: Hardcover
• 326 pages

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In Catholic parochial school, writes Hampl ( A Romantic Education ), she learned the virtue of contemplation: "Pondering was the highest vocation. . . . Pondering was a special kind of thinking. It was not done in the mind, that chilly place, but in the heart, where the real mystery of intelligence--intuition rather than thought--lay catlike and feminine, ready to pounce." Accordingly, as she seeks the meaning of faith--by visiting several Catholic pilgrimage sites in Europe and a California-based Cistercian women's monastery, and by musing over her religious upbringing in Minnesota--she exercises her observational skills with a fury. She describes the wildflowers of Umbria and the quirks and passions of English agnostic travel companions; she relates how, in Assisi, touring Franciscans "spoke of Francis and Clare as of people who had just left the room for a moment"; in Lourdes, she is overwhelmed by a crowd of supplicants, many of them in wheelchairs; and in the California monastery, she probes the meaning of silence. But for all its prettiness and earnestness, Hampl's prose is finally prolix and enervating.
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"People like me, fused by fascination to their past, find themselves taking planes to distant places," observes Hampl, whose A Romantic Education ( LJ 2/1/81) reported on growing up Czech in America. To sort out her feelings about the Catholicism she rejected as a young woman, Hampl heads for Europe--the past of dusky cathedrals and centuries-old monasteries where her religion was forged. But along the road to Assisi, at the Poor Clare monastery on the Borgo San Pietro, and at Lourdes, she encounters not religious exaltation but vapid tourists and an American nun who is singularly unwilling to share her feelings. Only at a retreat in Mendicino, California, where religion is being remade, does she find true spirituality, learning to accept rather than to impose. Poet Hampl's prose is beautifully incisive, delivering her cascading reflections and sardonic asides on some loutish fellow pilgrims with equal vigor. Unfortunately, the reflections don't quite cohere--it's hard to follow the development of her thought--but her beautiful scattering of ideas is still well worth reading.
- Barbara Hoffert, "Library Journal"
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Hampl, a poet, professor (English/Univ. of Minnesota), and MacArthur Fellow, peers into her soul and finds the Church. A rambling, radiant travelogue-cum-memoir, a sequel of sorts to the author's acclaimed autobiography, A Romantic Education (1981). Raised by devout Catholic parents, schooled by nuns, Hampl nevertheless finds that ``most of the time I'm so removed from belief I confuse it with having an opinion.'' To resolve this dilemma, she heads to Europe to ``see the old world of Catholicism.'' Most of her time is spent in Assisi, scrambling up holy mountains, kneeling in crypts, sifting her past, recording the chatter of priests, nuns, and other seekers. Just about all of it is passed on to us: encounters with fellow travelers whose passions and prattle fill up too much of the text; superb memories of a Catholic childhood drenched in dogma, instructed by nuns who radiated ``a bracing coolness''; gems of theological insight (``it was integral to the fundamental inspiration of Christianity that Jesus was poor. He was nothing and nobody, and therefore he could be a metaphor from minute one. He was the Word made flesh''); too many passages that sound like warmed-over Annie Dillard (on an airplane, ``wrinkles of terror run over the soles of my feet. My toes curl towards earth''). Over all hovers the kindly presence of St. Francis; beneath all runs the urgency of Hampl's quest, driven by the realization that ``God was not at stake....prayer was the real question.'' A tentative answer comes, oddly, not in Assisi but in a tacked-on visit to a Cistercian monastery in California. Much like a High Mass: rich, beautiful, boring, elevating. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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a book for the spiritual seeker
By Constant Reader
From the other reviews, this is clearly a book you either love or hate; as someone who loved it, I also found it (as the other fans of it did) a very moving and coherent tale. Hampl takes us with her as she seeks for a way to understand what it means to seek; she (like many of us) yearns for some sort of spirituality, but rests in a deeply uneasy relationship with her childhood Catholicism. The book follows her on a series of trips-- to Italy with jaded English tourists, then with Franciscan pilgrims, to Lourdes, back into her childhood memories, and finally to a retreat in California. I think readers who find the travelogue parts and the retreat section disconnected are not seeing this as a spiritual journey (in fact, most of them admit they aren't interested in it!-- then why read this book?) but it is-- and one that moves Hampl, not into certainty, but into peace and acceptance with her own doubt. The book charts her finding her way to accept and forgive those who travel with her, and especially to forgive herself for the dance she does between wanting this contemplative life and not wanting to give up the world-- adoring her sweets and coffee, her human companionship, her writing, her shyness, all the weaknesses that make her human and that she finally realizes do not have to be left behind, but instead embraced with compassion. The lessons she lives out are not solely Catholic or Christian but remind me of Pema Chodron's teachings on living with uncertainty. I found it honest, moving, and, in the end, deeply joyful.

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Wonderful fun read, simply could not put it down!
By G. Messersmith
Although I do not consider myself to be religious and have seldom set foot in a Catholic Church, I found this book captivating. It is refreshingly honest and simple to read and the characters are charming and sometimes quirky. The narrator has spent her life trying to break free of her childhood Catholic roots only to find herself drawn back into them in middle age. She begins her pilgrimmage in Italy with a group of agnostic British couples and moves on to a group of Friars and Nuns, who are delightfully humorous and not at all what one would expect them to be. Throughout her trips in Italy we learn bits and pieces of her childhood along with the story of St. Francis and St. Clare. The places she stays and sees are described beautifully and I felt as though I were on the trip with her. The book is fun and charming to read and I highly recommend it.

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Beautifully written spiritual autobiography
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This book is carefully and elegantly constructed, with the quiet pacing of a richly written travelogue. Her writing is so clear, descriptive and nuanced that the countryside, her fellow travellers and her own inner life are vividly realized. I enjoyed her candidness about the difficulty of constructing an authentic spiritual experience and the magic of actually experiencing one. It has what the best spiritual autobiographies have: hopeful doubt, caution, journey and joy. It is her stark candidness and the quality of her writing that set it apart as an excellent read.

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A renowned German novelist's memoir of his brother, who joined the SS and was killed at the Russian front.

Uwe Timm was only two years old when in 1942 his older brother, Karl Heinz, announced to his family he had volunteered for service with an elite squadron of the German army, the SS Totenkopf Division, also known as Death's Heads. Little more than a year later Karl Heinz was injured in battle at the Russian front, his legs amputated, and a few weeks after that he died in a military hospital. To their father, Karl Heinz's death only served to immortalize him as the courageous one, the obedient one, the one who upheld the family honor. His childhood was marked by the mythology of his brother's lost life; his absence-the hole he left in the family-just as palpable as if he were still alive. His mother's sadness and his father's rage over the loss of Karl Heinz ultimately defined Uwe's relationship with his parents. But while they eulogized the boy, Uwe wondered: who really had his brother been?

The life and death of his older brother has haunted Uwe Timm for more than sixty years. His parents' silence was one of the most painful aspects of his family history. Not even after the war ended, and details of unspeakable horrors emerged, did his parents ever acknowledge Germany's guilt and Karl Heinz's role in it. They simply said: We didn't know. After the deaths of his parents and older sister Timm set out in search of answers. Using military reports, letters, family photos and cryptic entries from a diary his brother kept during the war, he began to piece together the picture, discovering his brother's story is not just that of one man, but the tragedy of an entire generation. In the Shadow of My Brother is a meditation on German history and guilt, one that is both nuanced and measured.

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• Published on: 2005-04-20
• Released on: 2005-03-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.50" h x .77" w x 5.82" l,
• Binding: Hardcover
• 160 pages

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A memoir not of a brother but of his absence from the author's life and family, Timm's book revolves around memory--of how traces of his brother, an SS corporal killed in Russia in 1943, are tied up with aspects of WWII that still remain unspeakable for many Germans. Timm was two when his brother Karl-Heinz enlisted, at age 18. Using diary entries from a book Karl-Heinz kept at the front, family recollections and his own experience growing up without his brother, Timm works through, beautifully, his sense of an unknowable figure who, 60 years later, continues to loom large in his consciousness. At the same time, a good deal of the book goes toward unpacking the ways in which national identity informs personal identity; Timm digs into what it meant then (and means now) to have had a brother, or son, in the SS. Timm's novel The Invention of Curried Sausage was set during WWII, and this book is informed by a deep understanding of its horrors, anxieties and legacies. The translation is lyrical if occasionally awkward ("In the coffee break I went to the lavatory"); the whole compellingly scales a nation's failure down to the level of a nuclear family.
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Timm's reputation as a gifted literary portrait artist is by now well established outside of his native Germany, and his narratives of moral (and occasionally existential) ambiguity have likewise frequently transcended geographical and historical circumstance. His latest book, ostensibly a memoir of his older brother, an SS soldier killed on the Russian front, dares to be as anthropologically illuminating as it is intimate. Praised by their father for his bravery, Karl Heinz was the boy who told no lies, was always upright, shed no tears. His war diary, a quiet testament to the banality of evil that speaks matter-of-factly of combat but only alludes to "the cruel things that sometimes happen," only intensifies Timm's curiosity. A stubborn father and survivor mother, shadows in their own ways, are portrayed tenderly but without much sentiment; their presence rounds out this book's philosophical exploration of courage in its various manifestations. But, always aware of "the danger of smoothing it all out in the telling," Timm leaves powerfully open the question of whether it is more courageous to write or to be silent. Brendan Driscoll
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"With piercing intelligence, . . . history and private life [are] interfused utterly by a master writer in a way at once authentic, unpretentious, moving, and of extraordinary significance." --Kirkus Reviews

"This masterful book is autobiographical. It delves into the lives of the author's family, father, mother and sister, during the Nazi years and the Second World War. But essentially it is about his older brother who joined the SS, the Storm Troopers with the skull and bones on their black uniforms. It does not take long, however, before the young man is sent to war and killed on the eastern front.

Up to this point the story is among thousands. What makes it unique and a bestseller in its original German version is the narrator's painstaking reconstruction of this life on the basis of a few letters, a few diary entries, a few photographs and his own desperate memories. On such scanty evidence he probes into the family dynamics, the movitves for his brother's involvements with the most aggressive of Nazi organizations and the signs of his early disenchantment. Deeply affecting are the narrator's speculations about his own vulnerabilities and his hypothetical attitudes towards the regime, had he been old enough to be confronted with any decisions, questions all Germans, nay, all persons living in a country with an army should ask themselves." --Egon Schwarz, Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Washington University

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great book
By S. Vorstoffel
I was born and raised in Germany. Even though my parents were born after the war and both my grandfathers were dead by the time I started asking questions I can still relate very well to the unease when it comes to talking about WWII.

Where I grew up we had a neighbour whom I only knew as a mild mannered older guy, who loved us kids, would give us sweets and let us play in the big old trees in his garden. At one point I discovered that he was a member of the SS in WWII and had fought somewhere in Russia. He had no family. When he was in his eighties, he started opening up to a few people in the neighbourhood, among them my family. He would talk about the war, his comrades and generally the hard life they lived. He would always start crying. He would never mention fighting, killing civilians and all the other things he most likely saw and did. We all knew about those things, but we also felt sorry for the old guy and nobody pressed questions. He was a neighbour, not close family after all.

Timm's book perfectly captures the conflict of the - very normal - desire to love and admire a brother (father, uncle, grandfather, neighbour) while at the same time knowing that that person must have consciously participated in something unspeakably atrocious.

Obviously there is no easy solution and that conflict is one that generations of Germans had to deal with after the war. It is impossible to excuse what happened, but it is equally impossible to condemn all these people around you who all might have participated to various degrees, and be it just by keeping silent.

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history, memory, guilt
By Yalensian
This is less an account of Uwe Timm's brother's life and death in the SS -- though it is that -- than it is a reflection on memory and history, specifically on what they mean in postwar Germany. Timm's brother's diary, kept against regulations ("it ought not to exist," Timm writes), is brief and ambiguous. And in those ambiguities lie the greatest turmoil and conflict, with no real answers. What did the brother mean when he referred to a "big louse hunt"? Clearly, he was involved in criminal activities ("plenty of loot!"), and clearly, he was coarsened by the war ("fodder for my MG"). But was he involved in atrocities? Did he murder civilians? Those are the questions that Timm can't answer with any certainty. They point to the doubt and guilt of an entire people, a people who still struggle to come to terms with the war. Sixty years: still no answers, still no resolution.

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Forbidden door, not opened
By H. Schneider
Uwe Timm was born in Hamburg in 1940. When he was 3, his 19 y old brother died fighting in the Ukraine. The brother had been a soldier in a tank unit of the Waffen SS, in the infamous Totenkopf Division. Naturally, Timm has hardly any own recollections of his brother. What he has are his parents' tales about the brother, then the brother's letters and a small diary, covering half a year of the Russian campaign in 1943. The diary is partly included in the text. It gives only minimal information.

The subject is a difficult one for Timm. He dares to approach it openly only after his parents and elder sister have died. The book was first published in 2003. Timm compares his shying away from the subject to Blaubart's wife's hesitations in opening the forbidden door. He has the brother's diary and he has the official records of the division's campaign. He wants to compare. Does he dare? After the thrilling Blaubart picture in the early pages, I expected a serious exposure to the horror and analysis of its conditions. It never comes.

This non-fiction book, which is oddly called a novel in the Wikipedia entry on Timm, is more about the author himself and about his parents as it is about the brother. Father was a militarist, clearly. He had been in WW1 and then a `Freikorps' fighter in the Baltic states after WW1. He joined the Wehrmacht again for WW2. The family was deep into Nazi culture. The brother was father's apple of the eye. That is not the least important facet in Timm's memoirs. Mother was a loyal trooper, never second guessing father. Much of the book deals with the family business and its rise and failure after the war. Father's decay and death, mother's never-ending nostalgia for her son. Reconstruction and rearmament in West Germany. Collective guilt debates. The different approach in the East, where all explanations were pushed to the class struggle corner.

Why did the 18 y old brother join the SS, as a volunteer? Mother's explanation was: out of `idealism'. That is an essential category in understanding the attitude of many Nazis and sympathizers. It is a success story of brainwashing propaganda. Not all Nazis were primitives or cynics or fearful underlings who either knew or didn't care that their actions were criminal and immoral. Some, maybe many, had been duped into shedding normal human standards of morality. That is scary. It makes dictatorships more successful than could ever be achieved by pure violent state terror.

Who is Uwe Timm? A respected and successful German writer, with a tendency to the left. More a solid craftsman, not a lost genius (like Koeppen), nor an intellectual maverick (like Enzensberger), nor a great talent (like Erpenbeck). Also not a pompous old star of the literary circus, like Grass, nor an overrated taboo-buster like Schlink.

What has the solid craftsman given us? Timm had precious little material about his brother. Alas, he does not succeed in drawing much out of the little he had. His memories of family life are interesting, but not that unusual, and not particularly well told. The book title is an overstatement, it promises more than it can deliver. The original title is something like ` the example of my brother'. I find that as misleading as Anthea Bell's title version with the shadow. Which example, which shadow? The subtitle in the English version is dishonestly misleading: there is very little about 'a life and death in the SS' here.
The book is disappointing because Timm has promised more than he could deliver. There is a lack of focus on the book's promised subject. It is not a stupid book, but an incomplete one.

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The authors of The Hypnotist and The Nightmare deliver their most thrilling novel yet

Flora Hansen calls herself a medium and makes a living by pretending to commune with the dead. But after a gruesome murder at a rural home for wayward girls, Hansen begins to suffer visions that are all too real. She calls the police, claiming to have seen a ghost, but only one detective puts aside his skepticism long enough to listen: Joona Linna.
Linna has spent more time at the scene of the crime than any other detective would. The case seems obvious on the face of it: One of the girls at the home escaped in the middle of the night, leaving behind a bloody bed with a hammer under the pillow. But why does Hansen insist that the murder instrument was a stone, not a hammer? And what's the story behind the dark red grain of sand, almost like a splinter from a ruby, stuck beneath the dead girl's fingernail? As Linna refuses to accept easy answers, his search leads him into darker, more violent territory, and finally to a shocking confrontation with a figure from his past.
Just as Lars Kepler's The Hypnotist and The Nightmare did, The Fire Witness has spent months at number one on the Swedish bestseller lists. As the newspaper Dagens Nyheter put it, you start the thriller "on the subway home, keep reading at the dinner table, and then don't stop until well into the wee hours." Kepler writes with the force of Stieg Larsson and the plotting of Jo Nesbø. The Fire Witness is an unflinching page-turner, sure to join the ranks of its predecessors as an international sensation.

• Sales Rank: #1028903 in Books
• Brand: Kepler, Lars/ Wideburg, Laura A. (TRN)
• Published on: 2013-07-02
• Released on: 2013-07-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.17" h x 1.65" w x 6.40" l, 1.65 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 512 pages

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Deliciously Deviant
By Nicola Mansfield
Absolutely shocking! Perhaps the best thriller I've ever read! Do I sound like I'm being over dramatic? Perhaps, however I cannot write about Kepler's third book without gushing. I read a LOT of thrillers and I'm not surprised very often. I don't always figure it out, though I often do, but when I don't I'm usually close. The Fire Witness absolutely astounded me! I had no clue who the killer was. Well, actually, I had an obscure little theory going which I thought I was pretty clever of me but then WHAM, BAM it all starts unravelling in the last about 30 pages and I couldn't have been more giddy with shock. The case itself is also deliciously deviant and becomes more and more than what it first appears to be as the book continues. There is one twist after the other. I was on the edge of my seat for the whole ride. This book brings a double whammy to the table though. While we have the outstanding main case there is also a secondary case going on that involves Joona's life personally. We were introduced to this topic in the last lines of "The Nightmare" and it is carried out through this book. For the most part it stays in the background, while every now and then Joona thinks back upon it and we are given slightly more details on a mystifying horror that has dogged Joona's being for the past 12 years. Hardly interrupting the main case it pops up just often enough for us to want to know what is going on. Then at the end of the book when we know this case is being wrapped up, Joona's personal case takes centre stage and the set up for the next book is obviously laid on the table. Creepy, creepy, creepy is all I can say. Absolutely can't wait for the next book. Please hurry!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
another great Joona Linna novel
By carol irvin
I've read all three of these novels. they are all fantastic. they have many layers and threads and all come together brilliantly at the end. these threads include two murders at a home for disturbed girls, a fake psychic who starts being visited by ghosts, Joona Linna's hearing about his long lost wife and daughter (his being a detective for the Swedish national police) and even a church tower with bells (reminiscent of hitchcok's VERTIGO) which may hold some answers. read all three of these Swedish noir novels for a great immersion into Scandinavian noir.

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Joona, the Swedish Jack Bauer
By vera kolpakova
A girl and a night nurse are brutally murdered at a facility for troubled youths. Another girl is missing. There is a lot of blood. Fear grips the girls. The husband of the night nurse breaks down. This kicks off a string of events for what could have been a great police procedural, believable and fun to read. Joona, the suspended inspector who only follows police protocol when it suits him, is first assigned to the case as an observer. Soon he discovers the incompetency of the local police and takes matters into his own hands when the investigation is about to be closed as the suspected murderer is believed to have died. He eventually ties together the many pieces of the puzzle but his pursuit of the case becomes more and more improbable. The earlier promise of a good police procedural disintegrates into a thriller where Joona and the person he is trying to save escape death under the most unbelievable circumstances. At that point I was reading the book more in amusement over how twisted the story was (unnecessarily) spun - skipping paragraphs to just get to the end where the original story line finally comes together again.
But the plot does to end with the story - there are other developments from Joona's previous case that the authors develop at the very end of the book - I have to assume they are laying ground work for the next thriller...

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In 1962, James Meredith became a civil rights hero when he enrolled as the first African American student at the University of Mississippi. Four years later, he would make the news again when he reentered Mississippi, on foot. His plan was to walk from Memphis to Jackson, leading a "March Against Fear" that would promote black voter registration and defy the entrenched racism of the region. But on the march's second day, he was shot by a mysterious gunman, a moment captured in a harrowing and now iconic photograph.
What followed was one of the central dramas of the civil rights era. With Meredith in the hospital, the leading figures of the civil rights movement flew to Mississippi to carry on his effort. They quickly found themselves confronting southern law enforcement officials, local activists, and one another. In the span of only three weeks, Martin Luther King, Jr., narrowly escaped a vicious mob attack; protesters were teargassed by state police; Lyndon Johnson refused to intervene; and the charismatic young activist Stokely Carmichael first led the chant that would define a new kind of civil rights movement: Black Power.
Aram Goudsouzian's Down to the Crossroads is the story of the last great march of the King era, and the first great showdown of the turbulent years that followed. Depicting rural demonstrators' courage and the impassioned debates among movement leaders, Goudsouzian reveals the legacy of an event that would both integrate African Americans into the political system and inspire even bolder protests against it. Full of drama and contemporary resonances, this book is civil rights history at its best.

• Sales Rank: #618200 in Books
• Brand: Goudsouzian, Aram
• Published on: 2014-02-04
• Released on: 2014-02-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.18" h x 1.31" w x 6.32" l, 1.29 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 368 pages

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Though he was viewed as a civil rights champion for his 1962 campaign to integrate Ole Miss, when James Meredith undertook his long walk across Mississippi to encourage voter registration by black citizens in 1966, he was not regarded as a civil rights leader. His loner status kept him out of the inner circle of recognized leaders, yet when he was nearly assassinated one day into the walk, luminaries from Martin Luther King Jr. to Stokely Carmichael stepped in to take up the march, ultimately making it a turning point in the civil rights movement. Goudsouzian examines the tensions that were brewing between King, Carmichael, and others as the movement sorted itself into different philosophical camps—primarily integrationists versus separatists—with corresponding debates about the most effective strategies, setting the stage for the next phase of the era and the rise of the black power movement. He highlights the contentious debates among movement leaders, the courage they inspired among rural demonstrators, and the fierce resistance they faced from segregationists. --Vanessa Bush

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“An estimably well-researched and pitch-perfect work of history . . . Goudsouzian's well-written book is a model of authoritative and jargon-free scholarship.” ―The Washington Post

“Down to the Crossroads provides a nuanced and engaging look at what was one of the last major marches of the civil-rights movement.” ―Wall Street Journal

“Aram Goudsouzian has written the single best book on a critical period of the civil rights struggle. He helps us to understand fully what really happened to the movement and in America after passage of the historic 1964-65 civil rights laws. With a scholar's meticulous research, an investigative reporter's comprehensive interviewing, and a novelist's lyrical prose, Goudsouzian brings alive an important chapter in American history.” ―Nick Kotz, author of Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws That Changed America

“Down to the Crossroads stands every chance of being career-defining. It is meticulously researched, and it is thoroughly readable. It is also a story that remained relatively under-reported -- until now.” ―Leonard Gill, Memphis Flyer

“In Down to the Crossroads, Aram Goudsouzian re-creates the last great march of the civil rights movement in vibrant and intimate detail. Through compelling prose and exciting storytelling, Goudsouzian introduces contemporary readers to the central characters of a great American drama: a historic political movement in transition, precisely at the end of the era of nonviolent civil disobedience and the beginning of the revolutionary politics of Black Power, militancy, and armed resistance. This book is a must-read for anyone curious about the sixties and about the roots of the political movement that elected Barack Obama president.” ―Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University

“The Meredith March remains one of the most under-studied yet significant events of the civil rights era. In Aram Goudsouzian, the march has found its definitive chronicler. Fresh, powerful, and brimming with new historical insights, Down to the Crossroads is a truly impressive account of a march that forever transformed American race relations.” ―Peniel E. Joseph, professor of history at Tufts University and author of Waiting ’Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America and Stokely: A Life

“Down to the Crossroads is a splendid addition to the literature of the southern struggle to overcome the Jim Crow system. It offers a vivid account of the tumultuous events that brought together the key civil rights leaders of the 1960s, and it deepens our understanding of their contrasting answers to Martin Luther King's enduring question: Where do we go from here?” ―Clayborne Carson, founding director of Stanford University’s Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute and author of Martin’s Dream: My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

About the Author
Aram Goudsouzian is chair of the history department at the University of Memphis. He earned his B.A. from Colby College and his Ph.D. from Purdue University. He is the author of King of the Court: Bill Russell and the Basketball Revolution, The Hurricane of 1938, and Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon. He lives in Memphis, Tennessee.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Aram Goudsouzian reveals the story behind the Meredith March
By Paul T. Murray
The Meredith March in 1966 is usually remembered as the birthplace of the Black Power slogan. Down to the Crossroads by Aram Goudsouzian reveals that this march was much more than that. Begun as a solo hike from Memphis to Jackson by James Meredith, the first African American to attend Ole Miss, it became a national event when he was shot from ambush. Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael, the new chairman of SNCC, and Floyd McKissick, the head of CORE, took up Meredith’s cause.
Compared with the unparalleled success of the Selma to Montgomery march just sixteen months earlier, the Meredith march was a disappointment. Moderate leaders hoped the march would build support for the Civil Rights bill then before Congress. Radical spokesmen, most notably Carmichael, wanted to turn the Civil Rights Movement towards Black Nationalism and away from nonviolence. Reporters covering the march focused on disagreements among the leaders and anti-white implications of the new slogan. Largely overlooked was the march’s announced goal of promoting black voter registration.
Goudsouzian has done extensive research on the events and personalities involved in the Meredith march. He has interviewed a wide variety of participants and observers. He scrupulously avoids taking sides among the various factions and points out benefits of the march as well its less positive consequences.
Students of the Civil Rights Movement will learn much they previously did not know from reading Down to the Crossroads.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
I was there. This book rings true.
By David Doggett
Just finished reading the copy the author sent me. The title takes a famous phrase from blues pioneer Robert Johnson to refer to the ideological crossroads where the non-violence and integration of the “beloved community” of the early ‘60s Civil Rights Movement splintered with the poorly understood messages of Black Power and separatism. This book strikes a reasonably good balance between detailed documentation of the behind-the-scenes machinations of the national leaders who converged on the 1966 March overnight after the loner Meredith was shot, and the day-to-day trudging of the foot soldiers like myself, interspersed with the terror and anger of violent clashes in Philadelphia and Canton. This was not only “the last of the great civil rights marches,” but also the last time the leadership of every civil rights organization from the Urban League to SNCC struggled face-to-face over strategy and philosophy for days on end. It’s all there - the egos of the national leaders, the pragmatism of the local leaders, the heroism of the local people, the viciousness of Mississippi law enforcement, officials and the white public, and the callous neglect of the Federal Government. This is a dramatic read for those of us who were there, and those who weren’t; and it breaks ones heart to understand what we went through to start registering voters after the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and what is happening now with the Supreme Court decisions and rash of voter suppression laws.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Came here directly from C-SPAN
By David P Hoelzen
Came here directly from C-SPAN and an interview between the author, Aram Goudsouzian, and Rich Benjamin. As an American of European heritage, I was stunned by the clarity, even-handedness, and insightful light shown on truly a crossroads, a choice, and a road less traveled (as in examined) yet one that is now built into our infrastructure. The chase - I want to buy - I want to own - I want to read this book, because it vividly brings into focus for me the years I didn't really understand what was happening, when it was happening. I grew up during the 1960's, and read the newspaper, because I carried and delivered it, every day. The Des Moines Register, first, in the snow and rain in the morning, then later, The Burlington Hawk-Eye as it was known then, in the afternoon. I was 10 years old in 1963 and I knew a lot of what I read in the newspaper. Growing up in Iowa, I didn't see directly any of this struggle, yet I knew of it like seeing far off lightning on the horizon, and straining to hear the silent thunder.

I want to hear the thunder, and the stories, from the people who marched this march. I was too far away at the time to hear it, but I know it was a complex time that was not well told in the newspapers of the time.

By the way, during the interview, I learned something important. I was waiting to hear about how James Meredith died on the march. Turns out I was misinformed, or misheard, or mis-whatevered. He didn't die on the march, the would be assassin used birdshot, and Meredith recovered. Even more fascinating, the shooter, as of the 201? 10? 14 interview, was still alive, but has refused interviews with the author. I hope to hear more from this author.

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