My Soul Looks Back in Wonder or Tragic Legacy

My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Voices of the Civil Rights Experience

Author: Juan Williams

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Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments	xiii
	Foreword	xvii
	Introduction: The Soul of Change	1
Section I	The Weight
[1]	I Am a Man	19
[2]	A Dream Is a Good Place to Start	25
[3]	King of the Blues	31
[4]	Twisted Steel and Sex Appeal	37
[5]	Gentleman of the Press	40
[6]	Skin Dive	44
[7]	American Gandhi	48
[8]	The Birth of Elvis	55
[9]	The Jump-off Point	60
[10]	"Like Little Tortures Each Day"	65
Section II	We Shall Not Be Moved
[11]	A Blinding Flash Opened Our Eyes	75
[12]	Justice Never Sleeps	79
[13]	The Veil of Amnesia	84
[14]	Heaven Can Wait	92
[15]	Cracking the System	98
[16]	Louisiana Moon	104
[17]	Wake Up, Washington!	111
[18]	The Brutal Truth	118
[19]	Mother Courage	125
[20]	Hour of Power	129
[21]	Love Story in Black and White	134
[22]	Hard-Wired for Freedom	141
[23]	Help from on High	148
[24]	At History's Elbow	153
Section III	The Wings of the Future
[25]	Founding Sisters	161
[26]	Unprincipled Principal	167
[27]	Shooting for Big Fish	173
[28]	Wheels of Progress	178
[29]	Threads in the Civil Rights Quilt	182
[30]	Rewriting the Lies	188
[31]	The Latino Underground Railroad	192
[32]	A More Perfect Union	199
[33]	A Living Hope	203
	Afterword	211

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Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency

Author: Glenn Greenwald

The first true character study of a lost president and his disastrous legacy

In this fascinating, timely book, Glenn Greenwald examines the Bush presidency and its long-term effect on the nation, charting the rise and steep fall of the current administration, dissecting the rhetoric, and revealing the faulty ideals upon which George W. Bush built his policies. Enlightening and eye-opening, this is a powerful look at the man whose incapability and cowboy logic have left America at risk.

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A constitutional-law attorney submits a blistering, highly tendentious brief against President George W. Bush. Greenwald (How Would a Patriot Act?, 2006) unambiguously declares the Bush legacy "one of colossal failure" due almost entirely to the president's response to the attacks of 9/11. According to the author, echoing what has become a well-worn trope on the Left, this response unmasked Bush's Manichean world view, a simplistic proclivity to see events in terms of Good and Evil that precludes any possibility of reexamination or change. This cramped vision, Greenwald argues, is reinforced by the President's "hungry, crazed, warmongering 'base' " composed of Middle East oil interests, Christian evangelicals and an Israel-centric strain of neoconservatives. The combined interests of these forces, requiring a seemingly endless stream of enemies, accounts for the restriction of our civil liberties, the intimidation of the press, the muzzling of dissent, the alienation of our allies. Where others might congratulate Bush for his moral clarity, Greenwald sees him as the leader of an administration obsessed with its own power. Among his more incendiary charges: Bush wanted to violate the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to demonstrate "he is more powerful than the law"; he has replaced his alcohol addiction with fervent evangelicalism; and any U.S. action against Iran will be dictated not by geopolitical considerations, but rather by the "President's personality." One endless denunciation follows another in prose so overheated and with judgments so uniformly negative and absolute as to mimic the very worldview the author rails against. What might have made a rousing article for, say, TheNation, collapses at book length, a victim of its own relentless, wild-eyed partisanship. Red meat for Bush haters; a tedious, predictable bore for everyone else.