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Rogue Reader (Paperback)
Teresa Fee Goodman; Jason Peter Goodman; Illustrated by Jason Peter Goodman
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As captain of the college football national champion Nebraska
Cornhuskers, Jason Peter was the master of all he surveyed, whipped
to a frenzy by his own power and ambition. But just a few years
later, his NFL career in ruins after devastating injuries, he found
himself consumed by addictions: first painkillers, then crack, and
finally heroin, ingested in quantities that would have killed most
people. In "Hero of the Underground", Jason Peter tells his story
with utter candor, an athlete's attitude and a junkie's
single-minded obsessive clarity. Prowling the pre-dawn streets of
Manhattan, strung out and fearing he has murdered his
girlfriend...flying cross country in a chartered jet with two
high-priced call girls and His and Theirs piles of coke and
heroin...crawling inch by inch through shag carpet toward the door
of a last-ditch Los Angeles hotel with the utter conviction that he
is being surveyed through the peephole...these and other vivid
scenes punctuate a life that is part Bukowski (without the
exhausted world-weariness), part Burroughs (both William and
Augusten), and part A Million Little Pieces (except it all really
happened).
The accomplished poet and scholar John Crowe Ransom made profound
contributions to twentieth-century American literature. As a
teacher at Vanderbilt University he was also a leading member of
the Southern Agrarian movement and a contributor to the movement's
manifesto I'll Take My Stand. Ransom's Land! is a previously
unpublished work that unites Ransom's poetic sensibilities with an
examination of economics at the height of the Great Depression.
Politically charged with Ransom's aesthetic beliefs about
literature and his agrarian interpretation of economics, Land! was
long thought to have been burned by its author after he failed to
find a publisher. Thankfully, the manuscript was discovered, and we
are now able to read this unique and interesting contribution to
the Southern Agrarian revival. After the publication of I'll Take
My Stand in 1930, Ransom, who provided the book's Statement of
Principles in addition to its lead essay, became convinced that the
book had not adequately proposed an economic alternative to
Northern industrialism, which had fairly obliterated the Southern
way of life. Land! was Ransom's attempt to fill this gap. In it he
presents the weaknesses inherent in capitalism and argues
convincingly that socialism is not only an inadequate alternative
but inimical to American sensibilities. He proposes instead that
agrarianism, which could flourish alongside capitalism, would
relieve the problems of unemployment and the "permanently
unemployed." In particular, he argues that what he calls the
"amphibian farmer"-who can survive in both a monetary and a
non-monetary economy- would never, so long as he relied on himself
for necessities, have to fear unemployment. America, Ransom claims,
is unique in offering this opportunity because, unlike in European
countries, land is plentiful.
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