I wanted to read this book to understand the roots of the alt-right phenomenon and for that purpose the book is excellent. The key insight is that rural USA never integrated its black communities after the civil war and the civil rights movement. In many ways it barely desegregated.
The author makes this plain as day by visiting the different social events going on - black churches and white churches but never mixed, white gun shows and horse events, community projects always split on racial lines.
Reviews and Comments
Sci Fi. Currently reading my way through Ursula K. Le Guin.
This link opens in a pop-up window
Tim Hutton rated Never Let Me Go: 3 stars
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat …
Tim Hutton rated Babel-17: 4 stars
Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany (The Gregg Press science fiction series)
During an interstellar war one side develops a language, Babel-17, that can be used as a weapon. Learning it turns …
Tim Hutton rated An Artist of the Floating World: 4 stars
Tim Hutton rated The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.: 3 stars
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson, Nicole Galland (D.O.D.O., #1)
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. is a science fantasy novel by American writers Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland. It …
Tim Hutton rated Once: 5 stars
Once by Morris Gleitzman (Felix and Zelda -- bk. 1)
For three years and eight months, Felix has lived in a convent orphanage high in the mountains in Poland. But …
Tim Hutton rated Now: 5 stars
Tim Hutton rated Then: 5 stars
Tim Hutton rated After: 5 stars
Tim Hutton rated Soon: 5 stars
Tim Hutton rated Accelerando: 3 stars
Accelerando by Charles Stross
The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings …
