State secrets; police surveillance in America

COWAN, Paul

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

Addresses the volatile issues that interfaith couples face as they discover the importance of religion and ethnicity in their lives

Mixed Blessings: Overcoming the Stumbling Blocks in an Interfaith Marriage

Self-Help

Cowan, Rachel

Relationships

Penguin Group USA

A reissue of a fascinating work of "superb" (Chicago Tribune) reportage on the fault lines that produced today's red/blue divide.First published in 1979 and long out of print, The Tribes of America is an overlooked classic—a prescient and deeply empathetic work based on seven years of reporting from the front lines of the culture wars that continue to divide America. Long before Tom Frank asked, "What's the matter with Kansas?" Village Voice reporter and civil rights activist Paul Cowan set out to "to cross the sound barrier of dogma and test [his] beliefs against the realities of American life" by investigating what he called the "professional, religious, ethnic, and racial tribes—the Tribes of America." From reporting on a vicious battle over school textbooks in West Virginia, the school busing crisis in Boston, and the miners' strike in Harlan County, Kentucky, to the fight over low-income housing in Forest Hills, Queens, and the 1972 conspiracy trial of Eqbal Ahmad, Father Philip Berrigan, and others, Cowan journeyed deep into misunderstood communities across the nation to depict American struggles, prejudices, and hopes.In his introduction, Rick Perlstein writes that Cowan's "agonized sensitivity to battlefields then barely emergent makes for one of the most remarkable books I have ever read by any journalist." The Tribes of America is a powerful model for engaged journalism and an enormously illuminating portrait of a nation at war with itself.

The tribes of America

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

DOUBLEDAY

A Jewish writer portrays his personal struggle to rediscover the religious and cultural heritage that his family lost through their assimilation into American society

An Orphan in History: Retrieving a Jewish Legacy

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Drawing on personal experience, history, literature, and in-depth interviews, the authors address the volatile issues that interfaith couples face as they discover the importance of religion and ethnicity in their lives

Mixed Blessings: Marriage Between Jews and Christians

Orphan in History, An

Anchor

Offers trivia questions about the politics, music, theater, literature, movies, sports, television, and popular culture of the 1960s

Only Yesterday: A Quiz on the Sixties

Reference

GRAND CENTRAL PUB.

An Orphan in History

Professionals & Academics

Bantam]

A Jewish writer portrays his personal struggle to rediscover the religious and cultural heritage that his family lost through their assimilation into American society

Making of an Un-American

Viking Adult

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