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Maximum Insight - Selected Columns (Paperback)
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Maximum Insight - Selected Columns (Paperback)
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List price R611
Loot Price R555
Discovery Miles 5 550
You Save R56 (9%)
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With syndication in more than 200 newspapers and a faithful
readership nationwide, Bill Maxwell's status as one of the
country's preeminent black journalists is unquestionable. This
collection of his columns, primarily from the St. Petersburg Times,
forms a body of commentary on humanity (and lack of same) that will
capture the hearts and minds of Americans. Maxwell covers a
sweeping range of subjects, including race-a central but not
exclusive theme. He asks hard questions that courageously attempt
to understand hatred and injustice in America; and he takes on
controversial issues many columnists avoid and a wide spectrum of
national figures-from Jeb, George W. and Clarence Thomas to the
Pope and Jesse Jackson. Maxwell writes movingly about his childhood
as the son of migrant farm workers in rural Florida, his love of
books-beginning with those plucked from garbage cans-and his
everyday encounters with the white world and the black one. With a
voice that is provocative and insights that are deep and
passionate, he tackles the plight of migrant workers, the
devastation of the environment, religious intolerance, homophobia,
affirmative action, illiteracy, public education, civic
responsibility, politics-and racism. He criticizes blacks and
whites alike in his search for truth and right, especially in his
exploration of what he calls 'resurgent bigotry and Republicanism'
and 'the black writer's most agonizing task-and duty-being
dispassionate about the foibles and self-destructive behavior of
African-Americans. Setting a standard for the newspaper column as
social criticism, Maximum Insight illuminates the role of the black
writer as an interpreter of the forces that define a diverse
America.
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