Tidbits

Just picked up Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon. After reading the first few pages of the Introduction, I am horrified. I find myself gobsmacked because I considered that I knew this history. But widespread industrial neo-slavery?

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Do I dare trust Michael Crichton again? After the wretched State of Fear, I swore off him. When he died Crichton had finished a new book: Pirate Latitudes: A Novel by Michael Crichton

NPR's reviewer Alan Cheuse raved about it. I put it on hold.