Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Summer 2010- read up to today- entry 7

Elijah Wald, How The Beatles Destroyed Rock 'N' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music, finished
Tim Wise, Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama, finished
"They Take Our Jobs!" and 20 other Myths About Immigration, Aviva Chomsky, to page 74

Wise's book was really short but useful, and Chomsky's book is a great fact-based look at the myths surrounding immigration and the law, race, the economy, and more. The rest of Wald's book is much like how I thought it would be, as written about in the last post: great for historians and experts, but not so much for general readers, despite good writing and solid conclusions.

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